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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,

    • G ° Washington
    President and deputy from Virginia

    Delaware

  • Geo: Read
  • Gunning Bedford jun
  • John Dickinson
  • Richard Bassett
  • Jaco: Broom

    • Maryland

  • James McHenry
  • Dan of St Thos. 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

    • 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

    • Pennsylvania

  • B Franklin
  • Thomas Mifflin
  • Robt. Morris
  • Geo. Clymer
  • Thos. FitzSimons
  • Jared Ingersoll
  • James Wilson
  • Gouv Morris
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    Analysis & Application

    Article VII states that the Constitution will be established when nine states ratify it, and is followed by signatures from represetatives of the states.

    This article is applicable because it shows the process of how the Constitution was ratified and established.