7. 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.
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
| Delaware | George Read | New Hampshire | John Langdon |
| Gunning Bedford Jr. | Nicholas Gilman | ||
| John Dickinson | Massachusetts | Nathaniel Gorham | |
| Richard Bassett | Rufus King | ||
| Jacob Broom | Connecticut | William Samuel Johnson | |
| Maryland | James McHenry | Roger Sherman | |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer | New York | Alexander Hamilton | |
| Daniel Carroll | New Jersey | William Livingston | |
| Virginia | John Blair | David Brearley | |
| James Madison Jr. | William Paterson | ||
| North Carolina | William Blount | Jonathan Dayton | |
| Richard Dobbs Spaight | Pennsylvania | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Hugh Williamson | Thomas Mifflin | ||
| South Carolina | John Rutledge | Robert Morris | |
| Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | George Clymer | ||
| Charles Pinckney | Thomas Fitzsimons | ||
| Pierce Butler | Jared Ingersoll | ||
| Georgia | William Few | James Wilson | |
| Abraham Baldwin | Gouverneur Morris |
Attest: William Jackson, Secretary