The Constitution Of The United States Of America

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common 

defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty

 to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution

 for the United States of America.

Article V

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to 

this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as 

part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by c

onventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred

 and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and 

that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

Article VI

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. 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 judge

s in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.'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,

G. Washington - President. and deputy from Virginia

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 Brearly, 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