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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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
President and deputy from Virginia
NEW HAMPSHIRE. DELAWARE.
John Lang-don, George Read.,
Nicholas Oilman,
Gunnin££\Bedfoi\l, jun.
MASSACHUSETTS.
John Dickenson,
Nathaniel Gorban\
Richard Bassett,
Rufus King-.
Jacob Broom.
CONNECTICUT.
MARYLAND.
William Samuel Johnson, James 'M'Henrv,
Roger Sherman.
NEW YORK.
Daniel ofSt Tho. Jenifer,
Daniel Carroll.
Alexander Hamilton.
NEW JERSBT.
John Blair,
VIRGINIA.
William Livingston,
James Madison, jnn.
David Brearly,
NORTH CAROLINA.
William Patterson,
William Blount,
Jonathan Dayton.
Richard Dobbs Spaight,
PENNSYLVANIA. Hugh Williamson.
Benjamin Franklin,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Thomas Mifflin,
John Rutledge,
Robert Morris,
Charles C-otes\vorth Pinckney,
George Clymer,
Charles Pinckney,
Thomas Fitzsimons,
Pierce Butler.
Jared Ingersoll,
James W dson,
GEORGIA.
William Few,
Governeur Morris.
Attest,
Abraham Baldwin.
WILLIAM JACKSON,
Secretary.
IN CONVENTION,
Monday, September 17th, 1787.
Pr^ent : the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Mr. Hamilton from New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania. Dela-
ware, Maryland, Virginia, pfcfrth Carolina, South Carolina, and
Georgia.
1. Resolved, That the preceding constitution be laid
before '.he United States in congress assembled, and that
it is tae opinion of this convention, that it should afterwards
be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen
in each state by the people thereof, under the recomracn-
dv\ ion of its legislature, for their assent and ratification ;
and that each convention assenting 'o^nd ratifying the
same, should give notice thereof to the United States in
congress assembled.
2. Resolved. That it is the opinion of this convention;
that as bo-.n as v •« conventions of nine states shall have
ratified this constitution, the United States in congress as-