THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES: ARTICLE SEVEN

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This is the seventh of a series of posts on the Constitution of the United States of America, created as a public service for reading, reference, and discussion. Readers are encouraged to peruse it and make commentary with regard to our founding document. The following text is an unaltered transcription of the original document, as written, copied from the text on the National Archives archives.gov webpage. 

Article Seven contains no sections, and with proper perusal is easily understood.

The White House webpage leads to the National Archive webpage, here are the links to both:

 https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-constitution/

 https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution
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
Presidt 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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