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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--Presidt. and deputy from Virginia

[Signed also by the deputies of twelve States.]

Delaware

bulletGeo: Read
bulletGunning Bedford jun
bulletJohn Dickinson
bulletRichard Bassett
bulletJaco: Broom

Maryland

bulletJames MCHenry
bulletDan of ST ThoS. Jenifer
bulletDanL Carroll.

Virginia

bulletJohn Blair--
bulletJames Madison Jr.

North Carolina

bulletWM Blount
bulletRichD. Dobbs Spaight.
bulletHu Williamson

South Carolina

bulletJ. Rutledge
bulletCharles 1ACotesworth Pinckney
bulletCharles Pinckney
bulletPierce Butler.

Georgia

bulletWilliam Few
bulletAbr Baldwin
 

 

New Hampshire

bulletJohn Langdon
bulletNicholas Gilman

Massachusetts

bulletNathaniel Gorham
bulletRufus King

Connecticut

bulletWM. SamL. Johnson
bulletRoger Sherman

New York

Alexander Hamilton

New Jersey

bulletWil: Livingston
bulletDavid Brearley.
bulletWM. Paterson.
bulletJona: Dayton
 

Pennsylvania

bulletB Franklin
bulletThomas Mifflin
bulletRobT Morris
bulletGeo. Clymer
bulletThoS. FitzSimons
bulletJared Ingersoll
bulletJames Wilson.
bulletGouv Morris


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