[106th Congress House Rules Manual -- House Document No. 106-320]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office Online Database]
[DOCID:hrulest-8]

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                              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

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    America the Twelfth In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed
    our Names,

                         Go WASHINGTON--Presidt.

                                               and Deputy from Virginia.

    [Signed also by the deputies of twelve States.]

                             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,                     Wm. Paterson,

David Brearley,                      Jona: Dayton.

                              Pennsylvania.

B Franklin,                          Thomas Mifflin,

RobT. 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 ST Thos. Jenifer.

Danl Carroll,

                                Virginia.

John Blair,                          James Madison Jr.

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                             North Carolina.

Wm. Blount,                          Rich'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.