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. The Word, "the," being interlined done in Convention by the between the seventh and eighth Unanimous Consent of the Lines of the first Page, The Word States present the Seventeenth "Thirty" being partly written on an Day of September in the Year Erazure in the fifteenth Line of of our Lord one thousand seven the first Page, The Words "is hundred and Eighty seven and tried" being interlined between the of the Independence of the thirty second and thirty third United States of America the Lines of the first Page and the Twelfth In witness whereof We Word "the" being interlined between have hereunto subscribed our the forty third and forty fourth Names, Lines of the second Page. Attest WILLIAM JACKSON Secretary G^o WASHINGTON--Presid^t and deputy from Virginia New Hampshire {JOHN LANGDON } {NICHOLAS GILMAN} Massachusetts { NATHANIEL GORHAM { RUFUS KING Connecticut { W^M: SAM^L JOHNSON { ROGER SHERMAN New York ALEXANDER HAMILTON New Jersey { WIL: LIVINGSTON { DAVID BREARLEY { W^M PATERSON { JONA: DAYTON Pennsylvania { B FRANKLIN { THOMAS MIFFLIN { ROB^T MORRIS { GEO. CLYMER { THO^S FITZSIMONS { JARED INGERSOLL { JAMES WILSON { GOUV MORRIS Delaware { GEO: READ { GUNNING BEDFORD jun { JOHN DICKINSON { RICHARD BASSETT { JACO: BROOM Maryland { JAMES M^CHENRY { DAN OF S^T THO^S JENIFER { DAN^L CARROLL Virginia { JOHN BLAIR-- { JAMES MADISON Jr. North Carolina { W^M BLOUNT { RICH^D DOBBS SPAIGHT { HU WILLIAMSON South Carolina { J. RUTLEDGE { CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY { CHARLES PINCKNEY { PIERCE BUTLER Georgia { WILLIAM FEW { ABR BALDWIN [Illustration: First Page of the Constitution (reduced)]