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 Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names, Go. WASHINGTON— New Hampshire John Langdon Massachusetts Nathaniel Gorham Connecticut Wm. Saml. Johnson New York Alexander Hamilton New Jersey Wil: Livingston Pennsylvania B Franklin Delaware Geo: Read Maryland James Mchenry Virginia John Blair— North Carolina Wm. Blount South Carolina J. Rutledge Georgia William Few Attest: |