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Article.VI. Article.VII.

All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall

the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution
the United States under this Constitution, as under the between the States so ratifying the Same.
Confederation.
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the
which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty
made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the seven and of the Independence of the United States of
United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and America the Twelfth In Witness whereof We have hereunto
the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing subscribed our Names,
in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary Go. Washington--Presidt:
notwithstanding.
and deputy from Virginia
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and NEW HAMPSHIRE
the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all execu-

tive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of John Langdon

the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, Nicholas Gilman
to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever MASSACHUSETTS
be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust

under the United States. Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
CONNECTICUT

Wm. Saml. Johnson
Roger Sherman

NEW YORK
Alexander Hamilton
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

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