RANDOM MUSINGS FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL

4/24/2011

THE CONSTITUTION

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.
Signers of the Constitution
G Washington presiding Virginia
John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman New Hampshire
Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King Massachusetts
Wm Saml Johnson, Roger Sherman Connecticut
Alexander Hamilton New York
Wil Livingston, David Brearley, Wm Paterson, Jona Dayton New Jersey
B Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robt Morris, Geo Clymer, Thos FitzSimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouv Morris Pennsylvania
Geo Read, Gunning Bedford Jr, John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jaco Broom Delaware
James McHenry, Dan of St Thos Jenifer, Danl Carroll Maryland
John Blair, James Madison Jr Virginia
Wm Blount, Richd Dobbs Spaight, Hu Williamson North Carolina
J Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler South Carolina
William Few, Abr Baldwin Georgia
Attest William Jackson Secretary
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