CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. II

fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no
State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in
the Senate.

ARTICLE VI.

All debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the
Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United
States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall
be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall
be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the
supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be
bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to
the Contrary notwithstanding.

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Mem-
bers of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial
Officrs, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be
bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no
religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office
or public Trust under the United States.

ARTICLE VII.

The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States shall be sufficient
for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratify-
ing 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 thou-
sand 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—
Presidt and deputy from Virginia.

	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 PATTERSON
DAVID BREARLEY	JONA: DAYTON