- Editor’s Notes: As you look this over please make use of the links regarding the Framers backgrounds. I am amazed to find there were so many lawyers in this group, and for that matter, that there were so many lawyers in that early America in the first place. Well, I guess that’s a plague we have always had to endure.
- Any typos or misspellings are reproduced as they appeared.
The Ratification of the
Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this
Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.
Notes for this article:
Ratification Documents
Ratification Dates and Votes
FAQ: Are new states required to ratify the Constitution?
Signatories
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.
Go Washington - President and
deputy from Virginia
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
Pensylvania - B Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robt Morris, Geo.
Clymer, Thos FitzSimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouv Morris
Delaware - Geo. Read, Gunning
Bedford jun, John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jaco. Broom
Maryland - James McHenry, Dan of
St Tho Jenifer, Danl Carroll
Virginia - John Blair, James
Madison Jr.
North Carolina - Wm Blount,
Richd Dobbs Spaight, Hu Williamson
South Carolina - J. Rutledge,
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler
Georgia - William Few, Abr
Baldwin
Attest: William Jackson,
Secretary
Notes for
this section:
Note
The Framers
The Framers' Demographics
Note
The Framers
The Framers' Demographics
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