Article VII.

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,
GEORGE WASHINGTON--

Presidt. and deputy from Virginia

 [Signed also by the deputies of twelve States.]
 
 
New Hampshire

 John Langdon
Nicholas Gilman
 
 

Delaware

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

Massachusetts

 Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
 
 

Maryland

 James MCHenry
Dan: of St. Thos. Jenifer
Danl Carroll
 
 

Connecticut

 Wm. Saml. Johnson
Roger Sherman
 
 

Virginia

 John Blair--
James Madison Jr.
 
 

New Jersey

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

North Carolina

 Wm. Blount
Richd. Dobbs Spaight.
Hu Williamson
 
 

Pennsylvania

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

South Carolina

 J. Rutledge
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney
Pierce Butler
 
 

Georgia

 William Few
Abr Baldwin
 
 

Attest:

 William Jackson, Secretary