ade, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law
of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby,
any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any States to the Contrary
notwithstanding.

3. 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 Independance of the United States
of America the Twelfth In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed
our Names,

GO: WASHINGTON--Presidt. 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 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

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

There are many comprehensive histories which include the period
covered by the present volume, of which a few--without disparaging
the other--are deserving of mention for some particular reason. David
Ramsay's "History of the American Revolution," 2 vols. (1789, and
subsequently reprinted), gives but little space to this particular
period, but it reveals the contemporary point of view. Richard
Hildreth's "History of the United States," 6 vols. (1849-1852), is
another early work that i