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

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