THE UNITED STATES.

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judicial officers, both of the United States, and of the several

states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this

No reli-

constitution : but no religious test shall ever be required as a

gious test

qualification to any office or public trust under the United

States.

ARTICLE VII.

The ratification of the conventions of nine states, shall be

Ratification

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. Go. WASHINGTON,

President, and Deputy from Virginia.

New Hampshire.

Delaware.

John Langdon,

George Reed,

Nicholas Oilman.

Gunning Bedford, Jr.

Massachusetts.

John Dickinson,

Nathaniel Gorham,

Richard Bassett,

Rufus King.

Jacob Broom.

Connecticut.

Maryland.

William Samuel Johnson,

James McHenry,

Roger Sherman.

Daniel of St. Tho. Jenifer,

New York.

Daniel Carroll.

Alexander Hamilton.

Virginia.

New Jersey.

John Blair,

William Livingston,

James Madison, Jr.

David Brearley,

North Carolina.

William Patterson,

William Blount,

Jonathan Dayton.

Richard Dobbs Spaight,

Pennsylvania.

Hugh Williamson.

Benjamin Franklin,

South Carolina,

Thomas Mifflin,

John Rutledge,

Robert Morris,

Charles C. Pinckney,

George Clyrner,

Charles Pinckney,

Thomas Fitzsimons,

Pierce Butler.

Jared Ingersoll,

Georgia.

James Wilson,

William Few,

Gouverneur Morris.

Abraham Baldwin.

Attest:

WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretary.