George Holding: “Article VII: ``The ratification of the conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the establishment of this…”

“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.'' Signers of the Constitution. George Washington, President and Deputy from Virginia. Delaware: George Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom. Maryland: James McHenry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll. Virginia: John Blair, James Madison, Jr.”