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. 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. GEO. WASHINGTON, _President, and Deputy from Virginia_. _New Hampshire._ JOHN LANGDON, NICHOLAS GILMAN. _Massachusetts._ NATHANIEL GORHAM, RUFUS KING. _Connecticut._ WM. SAM’L JOHNSON, ROGER SHERMAN. _New York._ ALEXANDER HAMILTON. _New Jersey._ WIL. LIVINGSTON, WM. PATERSON, DAVID BREARLEY, JONA. DAYTON. _Pennsylvania._ B. FRANKLIN, ROBT. MORRIS, THOS. FITZSIMONS, JAMES WILSON, THOMAS MIFFLIN, GEO. CLYMER, JARED INGERSOLL, GOUV. MORRIS. _Delaware._ GEO. READ, JOHN DICKINSON, JACO. BROOM, GUNNING BEDFORD, JUN’R, RICHARD BASSETT. _Maryland._ JAMES M’HENRY, DANL. CARROLL, DAN. OF ST. THOS. JENIFER. _Virginia._ JOHN BLAIR, JAMES MADISON, JR. _North Carolina._ WM. BLOUNT, HU. WILLIAMSON, RICH’D DOBBS SPAIGHT. _South Carolina._ J. RUTLEDGE, CHARLES PINCKNEY, CHAS. COTESWORTH PINCKNEY, PIERCE BUTLER. _Georgia._ WILLIAM FEW, ABR. BALDWIN. WILLIAM JACKSON, _Secretary_. ARTICLES IN ADDITION TO, AND AMENDATORY OF, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth article of the original Constitution. ARTICLE I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. ARTICLE II. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. ARTICLE III. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. ARTICLE IV.