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respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States;
and nothing In
this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the
United States, or of
any particular State.
   SECTION 4. The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union
a republican
 form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and
on application
 of the legislature, or of the eyecutive (when the legislature cannot be
convened), against
 domestic violence.
                                    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 legislature
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 conventions 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 Constitu-
tion, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution,
as under the con-
federation.
  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 judges 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 convention 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.               GEO. WASHINGTON,
                                              President and Deputy from Virginia.
                    NEW HAMPSHIRE.                      DELAWARE.
              JOHN LANGDON,                     GEO. READ,
              NICHOLAS GILMAN.                 GUNNING BEDFORD, JuN'P,
                    MASSACHUSETTS.             JOHN DICKINSON,
             NATHANIEL GORHAM,                  RICHARD BASSETT,
             RUFUS KING.                       JACO. BROOM.
                     CONNECTICUT.                       MARYLAND.
             WM. SAML. JOHNSON,                JAMES McHENRY,
             ROGER SHERMAN.                    DAN. OF ST. THOMAS JENIFER,
                      NEW YORK.                DANL. CARROLL.
             ALEXANDER HAMILTON.                         VIRGINIA.
                     NEW JERSEY.               JOHN BLAIR,
             WIL. LIVINGSTON,                  JAMES MADISON, JUN'R.
             DAVID BREARLY,                          NORTH CAROLINA.
             WM. PATERSON,                     WM. BLOUNT,
             JONA DAYTON.                      RICHARD DOBBS SPAIGHT,
                    PENNSYLVANIA.              HU. WILLIAMSON.
             B. FRANKLIN,                            SOUTH CAROLINA.
             THOMAS MIFFLIN,                   J. RUTLEDGE,
             ROBERT MORRIS,                    CH'S. COATESWORTH PINCKNEY,
             GEO. CLYMER,                      CHARLES PINCKNEY,
             THOMAS FITZSIMONS,                PIERCE BUTLER.
             JARED INGERSOLL,                            GEORGIA.
             JAMES WILSON,                     WILLIAM FEW,
             GOUV. MORRIS.                     ABR. BALDWIN.
               Attest:      WILLIAI1 JACKSON, Secretary.