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