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3. The senators and representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States, and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Const.i.tution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, under the United States.

ARTICLE VII.

_Of the Ratification._

1. The ratification of the conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Const.i.tution 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. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names.

GEORGE WAs.h.i.+NGTON, _President, and Deputy from Virginia._

_New Hamps.h.i.+re._ John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman.

_Ma.s.sachusetts._ Nathaniel Gorman, Rufus King.

_Connecticut._ William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman.

_New York._ Alexander Hamilton.

_New Jersey._ William Livingston, David Brearly, William Patterson, Jonathan Dayton.

_Pennsylvania._ Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Governeur Morris.

_Delaware._ George Read, Gunning Bedford, jun., John d.i.c.kinson, Richard Ba.s.sett, Jacob Broom.

_Maryland._ James M'Henry, Daniel of St. Tho. Jenifer, Daniel Carroll.

_Virginia._ John Blair, James Madison, jr.

_North Carolina._ William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson.

_South Carolina._ John Rutledge, Chas. Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler.

_Georgia._ William Few, Abraham Baldwin.