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.
GEO. WASHINGTON,
President, and Deputy from Virginia.
New Hampshire.
- John Langdon,
- Nicholas Gilman.
Massachusetts.
- Nathaniel Gorham,
- Rufus King.
Connecticut.
- Wm. Sam’l Johnson,
- Roger Sherman.
New York.