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.
The Word, “the,” being interlined between the seventh and eighth Lines of the first Page, The Word “Thirty” being partly written on an Erazure in the fifteenth Line of the first Page, The Words “is tried” being interlined between the thirty second and thirty third Lines of the first Page and the Word “the” being interlined between the forty third and forty fourth Lines of the second Page.
Attest William Jackson Secretary
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 Independance of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,
- Delaware
- George Read
- Gunning Bedford Jr.
- John Dickinson
- Richard Bassett
- Jacob Broom
- Maryland
- James McHenry
- Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
- Daniel Carroll
- Virginia
- John Blair
- James Madison Jr.
- North Carolina
- William Blount
- Richard Dobbs Spaight
- Hugh Williamson
- South Carolina
- John Rutledge
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
- Charles Pinckney
- Pierce Butler
- Georgia
- William Few
- Abraham Baldwin
- New Hampshire
- John Langdon
- Nicholas Gilman
- Massachusetts
- Nathaniel Gorham
- Rufus King
- Connecticut
- William Samuel Johnson
- Roger Sherman
- New York
- Alexander Hamilton
- New Jersey
- William Livingston
- David Brearley
- William Paterson
- Jonathan Dayton
- Pennsylvania
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Mifflin
- Robert Morris
- George Clymer
- Thomas Fitzsimons
- Jared Ingersoll
- James Wilson
- Gouverneur Morris