Article VII

Section. 1. The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independance of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,

G. Washington
President and deputy from Virginia

Delaware        Geo: Read
Gunning Bedford jun
John Dickinson
Richard Bassett
Jaco: Broom

Maryland        James McHenry
Dan of St Thos. Jenifer
Danl. Carroll

Virginia          John Blair
James Madison Jr.

North Carolina  Wm. Blount
Richd. Dobs Spaight

South Carolina  J. Rutledge
Charles Cotesworth Pinkney
Pierce Butler

Georgia          William Few
Abr Baldwin

New Hampshire John Langdon
Nicholas Gilman

Massachusetts  Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King

Connecticut      Wm. Saml. Johnson
Roger Sherman

New York        Alexander Hamilton

New Jersey     Wil: Livingston
David Brearley
Wm. Paterson
Jona: Dayton

Pensylvania     B Franklin
Thomas Miffin
Robt. Morris
Geo. Clymer
Thos. FitzSimons
Jared Ingersoll
James Wilson
Gouv Morris

Attest William Jackson Secretary