  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, Geo. Washington Presidt. and deputy from Virginia. 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 Pennsylvania B Franklin Thomas Mifflin Robt. Morris. Geo. Clymer Thos. Fitzsimons Jared Ingersoll James Wilson Gouv. Morris 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. Dobbs Spaight Hu. Williamson South Carolina J. Rutledge Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Charles Pinckney Peirce Butler. Georgia William Few Abr. Baldwin Attest. William Jackson, Secretary The Word 'the,' being interlined between the seventh and eighth Lines of the first Page, The word 'Thirty' being partly written on an Erasure in the fifteenth Line of the first Page, The Words 'is tried' being interlined between the thirty-second and thirty-third Lines of the first Page, and the Word 'the' being interlined between the forty-third and forty-fourth Lines of the second page. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing explanation in the original instrument is placed on the left of the paragraph beginning with the words, 'Done in Convention,' and therefore precedes the signatures. The interlined and rewritten words, mentioned in it, are in this edition printed in their proper places in the text.] |
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