[House Rules Manual -- House Document No. 104-272]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office Online Database]
[Pages 82-83]
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                              ARTICLE VII.

  The <<NOTE: Sec. 207. Ratification of the Constitution.>> 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,

                                     G<SUP>o WASHINGTON--Presi<SUP>dt.  

                                               and Deputy from Virginia.

    [Signed also by the deputies of twelve States.]

                             New Hampshire.

John Langdon,                        Nicholas Gilman.

                             Massachusetts.

Nathaniel Gorham,                    Rufus King.

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                              Connecticut.

Wm. Saml. Johnson,                   Roger Sherman.

                                New York.

Alexander Hamilton.

                               New Jersey.

Wil: Livingston,                     Wm. Paterson,

David Brearley,                      Jona: Dayton.

                              Pennsylvania.

B Franklin,                          Thomas Mifflin,

Rob<SUP>T. Morris,                   Geo. Clymer,

Thos. FitzSimons,                    Jared Ingersoll,

James Wilson,                        Gouv Morris.

                                Delaware.

Geo. Read,                           Gunning Bedford jun,

John Dickinson,                      Richard Bassett.

Jaco Broom,

                                Maryland.

James McHenry,                       Dan of S<SUP>T Thos. Jenifer.

Dan<SUP>l Carroll,

                                Virginia.

John Blair,                          James Madison Jr.

                             North Carolina.

Wm. Blount,                          Rich'<SUP>D. Dobbs Spaight.

Hu Williamson,

                             South Carolina.

J. Rutledge,                         Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,

Charles Pinckney,                    Pierce Butler.

                                Georgia.

William Few,                         Abr Baldwin.

  Attest:                            William Jackson, Secretary.