Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Pennsylvania

AUTHOR — Pennsylvania

Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Pennsylvania; December 12, 1787. (1)

In the Name of the People of Pennsylvania

Be it Known unto all Men that We the Delegates of the People of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in general Convention assembled Have assented to, and ratified, and by these presents Do in the Name and by the authority of the Same People, and for ourselves, assent to, and ratify the foregoing Constitution for the United States of America. Done in Convention at Philadelphia the twelfth day of December 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.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG President JNo ALLISON<br>JONATHAN ROBERTS<br>JOHN RICHARDS<br>JAMES MORRIS<br>TIMOTHY PICKERING<br>BENJN ELLIOT-<br>STEPHEN BALLIET<br>JOSEPH HORSFIELD<br>DAVID DASHLER<br>WILLIAM WILSON<br>JOHN BOYD<br>THO SCOTT<br>JOHN NEVILL<br>JASPER YEATES.<br>HENY SLAGLE<br>THOMAS CAMPBELL<br>THOMAS HARTLEY<br>DAVID GRIER<br>JOHN BLACK<br>BENJAMIN PEDAN<br>JOHN ARNDT<br>WILLIAM GIBBONS<br>RICHARD DOWNING | THOMAS CHEYN.<br>JOHN HANNUM<br>STEPHEN CHAMBERS<br>ROBERT COLEMAN<br>SEBASTIAN GRAFF<br>JOHN HUBLEY<br>SAMUEL ASHMEAD<br>ENOCH EDWARDS<br>HENRY WYNKOOP<br>JOHN BARCLAY<br>THOS YARDLEY<br>ABRAHAM STOUT<br>THOMAS BULL<br>ANTHONY WAYNE<br>GEORGE LATIMER<br>BENJN RUSH<br>HILARY BAKER<br>JAMES WILSON<br>THOMAS McKEAN<br>W MACPHERSON<br>JOHN HUNN<br>GEORGE GRAY

Attest JAMES CAMPBELL Secretary

(1) Reprinted from Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II (1894), pp. 44, 45. Back

Source:<br>Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States.<br> Government Printing Office, 1927. <br>House Document No. 398. <br>Selected, Arranged and Indexed by Charles C. Tansill