In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. -- John F. Kennedy

“The care of human life – not its destruction, is the first and only legitimate objective of good government." Thomas Jefferson

Article VII -- Ratification

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--Presidt. and deputy from Virginia

[Signed also by the deputies of twelve States.]

• New Hampshire
  • John Langdon
  • Nicholas Gilman
• Massachusetts
  • Nathaniel Gorham
  • Rufus King
• Connecticut
  • Wm. Saml. Johnson
  • Roger Sherman
• New Jersey
  • Wil: Livingston
  • David Brearley.
  • Wm. Paterson.
  • Jona: Dayton
• Pennsylvania
  • B Franklin
  • Thomas Mifflin
  • Robt. Morris
  • Geo. Clymer
  • Thos. FitzSimons
  • 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
• Virginia
  • John Blair--
  • James Madison Jr.
• North Carolina
  • Wm. Blount
  • Richd. Dobbs Spaight.
  • Hu Williamson
• South Carolina
  • J. Rutledge
  • Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
  • Charles Pinckney
  • Pierce Butler
• Georgia
  • William Few
  • Abr Baldwin
• Attest: William Jackson, Secretary