1. 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[502] 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—Presidt. and deputy from Virginia.
Attest William Jackson Secretary.
[Note by Department of State: The interlined and rewritten words mentioned in the above explanation, are in this edition, printed in their proper places in the text.]
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
David Brearley
Wm. Paterson
Jona: Dayton