Article VII.—Ratification of the Constitution.
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.
CHAPTER XXI.
AMENDMENTS
To the Constitution of the United States, Ratified
According to the Provisions of the Fifth
Article of the Foregoing Constitution.
Article I.—Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.
Article II.—A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Article III.—No soldiers shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.