II. This Constitution and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. III. The senators and representatives before-mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all 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: and no religious test shall ever be required, as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. 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 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._ _New Hampshire._—John Langdon, Nicholas Gelman. _Massachusetts._—Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King. _Connecticut._—William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman. _New York._—Alexander Hamilton. _New Jersey._—William Livingston, David Brearley, William Patterson, Jonathan Dayton. _Pennsylvania._—Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris. _Delaware._—George Read, Gunning Bedford, jun., John Dickenson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom. _Maryland._—James M‘Henry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carrol. _Virginia._—John Blair, James Madison, jun. _North Carolina._—William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. _South Carolina._—John Rutledge, Charles C. Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. _Georgia._—William Few, Abraham Baldwin. GEORGE WASHINGTON, _President_. WILLIAM JACKSON, _Secretary_. Hildreth tells us that, as regards the injunction of secrecy with respect to the proceedings of the convention, it was never removed. At the final adjournment the journal was entrusted to the custody of Washington, by whom it was afterwards deposited in the Department of State. It was first printed by order of Congress in 1818. Yates, one of the members, took short notes, which were printed after his death, in 1821. Still more perfect notes by Madison have been recently published.