ARTICLE VI. 1. All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. 2. 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, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. 3. 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; 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[502] 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, Go: WASHINGTON—_Presidt. and deputy from Virginia._ Attest William Jackson Secretary. [Note by Department of State: The interlined and rewritten words mentioned in the above explanation, are in this edition, printed in their proper places in the text.] _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. Fitz Simons Jared Ingersoll James Wilson Gouv Morris _Delaware_: Geo: Read Gunning Bedford jun John Dickinson Richard Bassett Jaco: Broom _Maryland_: James McHenry Dan of St. Thos. Jenifer Danl Carroll