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CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
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ficient 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 eightyseven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

President, and deputy, from Virginia.

Attest, William Jackson, Secretary.

Resolved, That this convention, in behalf of the freemen, citizens and inhabitants of the State of North Carolina, do adopt and ratify the said constitution and form of government.

SAMUEL JOHNSTON, President.

By order,

J. Hurt, Secretary.




IN CONVENTION, Monday, September 17th 1787.

Present: the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Mr Hamilton from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

Constitution to be laid before congress, &c.1. Resolved, That the preceding constitution be laid before the United States in congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of
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