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executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution: but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

ARTICLE VII.

1. 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. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, 

President and Deputy from Virginia.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
John Langdon,
Nicholas Gilman.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Nathaniel Gorman,
Rufus King.
CONNECTICUT.
William Samuel Johnson, 
Roger Sherman.
 
NEW YORK.
Alexander Hamilton.
NEW JERSY.
William Livingston,
David Bearly,
William Paterson,
Jonathan Dayton.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Benjamin Franklin,
Thomas Mafflin,
Robert Morris,
George Clymer,
Thomas Fitzsimons,
Jared Ingersoll,
James Wilson,
Governeur Morris.
DELAWARE.
George Read,