We the People
of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,
insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do
ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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.
The Word, "the," being interlined between the seventh and eighth 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.
Attest William Jackson Secretary
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,
G°. Washington
Presidt and deputy from Virginia
Delaware
Geo: Read,
Gunning Bedford jun,
John Dickinson,
Richard Bassett,
Jaco: Broom
Maryland
James McHenry,
Dan of St Thos. Jenifer,
Danl. Carroll
Virginia
John Blair,
James Madison Jr.
North Carolina
Wm. Blount,
Richd. Dobbs Spaight,
Hu Williamson
South Carolina
J. Rutledge,
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,
Charles Pinckney,
Pierce Butler
Georgia
William Few,
Abr Baldwin
New Hampshire
John Langdon,
Nicholas Gilman
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Gorham,
Rufus King
Connecticut
Wm. Saml. Johnson,
Roger Sherman
New York
Alexander Hamilton
New Jersey
Wil: Livingston,
David Brearley,
Wm. Paterson,
Jona: Dayton
Pennsylvania
B Franklin,
Thomas Mifflin,
Robt. Morris,
Geo. Clymer,
Thos. FitzSimons,
Jared Ingersoll,
James Wilson,
Gouv Morris