Article 7 – Ratification
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.
The Word “the”, being interlined between the seventh and eight Lines of the first Page, The Word “Thirty” being partly written on an Erazure 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.
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,
Attest William Jackson Secretary
Go: Washington -Presidt. and deputy from Virginia
Delaware
Geo: Read
Gunning Bedford jun
John Dickinson
Richard Bassett
Jaco: Broom
Virginia
John Blair—
James Madison Jr.
South Carolina
J. Rutledge
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney
Pierce Butler.
New Hampshire
John Langdon
Nicholas Gilman
Connecticut
Wm. Saml. Johnson
Roger Sherman
New Jersey
Wil. Livingston
David Brearley.
Wm. Paterson.
Jona: Dayton
Maryland
James McHenry
Dan of St Thos. Jenifer
Danl Carroll.
North Carolina
Wm Blount
Richd. Dobbs Spaight.
Hu Williamson
Georgia
William Few
Abr Baldwin
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
New York
Alexander Hamilton
Pennsylvania
B Franklin
Thomas Mifflin
Robt Morris
Geo. Clymer
Thos. FitzSimons
Jared Ingersoll
James Wilson.
Gouv Morris
