affirmation, to support this constitution: but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
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.
Geo. Washington,
President, and Deputy from Virginia.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
John Langdon,
Nicholas Gilman.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Nathaniel Gorham,
Rufus King.
CONNECTICUT.
William Samuel Johnson,
Roger Sherman.
NEW YORK.
Alexander Hamilton.
NEW JERSEY.
William Livingston,
David Brearley,
William Paterson,
Jonathan Dayton.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Benjamin Franklin,
Thomas Mifflin,
Robert Morris,
George Clymer,
Thomas Fitzsimons,
Jared Ingersoll,
James Wilson,
Gouverneur Morris.
DELAWARE.
George Reed,
Gunning Bedford, jr.,
John Dickinson,
Richard Bassett,
Jacob Broom.
MARYLAND.
James M'Henry,
Daniel of St. Tho. Jenifer,
Daniel Carroll.
VIRGINIA.
John Blair,
James Madison, jr.
NORTH CAROLINA.
William Blount,
Richard Dobbs Spaight,
Hugh Williamson.
SOUTH CAROLINA,
John Rutledge,
Charles C. Pinckney,
Charles Pinckney,
Pierce Butler.
GEORGIA,
William Few,
Abraham Baldwin.
