[9] Curtis's _History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States_ is by far the most ample and reliable source of information on this subject.
[10] The following are the names of the delegates who signed the constitution: GEO. WASHINGTON, _President, and deputy from Virginia_. _New Hampshire_--John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman. _Massachusetts_--Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King. _Connecticut_--William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman. _New York_--Alexander Hamilton. _New Jersey_--William Livingston, David Brearly, William Paterson, Jonathan Dayton. _Pennsylvania_--Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris. _Delaware_--George Reed, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom. _Maryland_--James M'Henry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll. _Virginia_--John Blair, James Madison, Jr. _North Carolina_--William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. _South Carolina_--John Rutledge, Charles C. Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. _Georgia_--William Few, Abraham Baldwin. _Attest_: William Jackson, _Secretary_.
THE CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO THE STATE LEGISLATURES--THE GREAT CONFLICT OF OPINIONS--WASHINGTON'S LETTERS TO MRS. GRAHAM AND LAFAYETTE ON THE SUBJECT--HAMILTON PREPARES FOR THE BATTLE--HIS PRELIMINARY REMARKS--OPPOSITION TO THE CONSTITUTION--_THE FEDERALIST_--STORMY DEBATES IN STATE CONVENTIONS--RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION--MEASURES FOR ESTABLISHING THE NEW GOVERNMENT--WASHINGTON'S THANKFULNESS FOR THE RESULT--WASHINGTON SPONTANEOUSLY NOMINATED FOR THE PRESIDENCY--HIS GREAT RELUCTANCE TO ENTER UPON PUBLIC LIFE AGAIN--LETTERS TO HIS FRIENDS ON THE SUBJECT--WASHINGTON ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES--PREPARATIONS FOR LEAVING HOME--VISIT TO, AND PARTING WITH HIS MOTHER--HIS JOURNEY TO THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT LIKE A TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION--HONORS BY THE WAY--ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION AT NEW YORK--HIS SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY.
The Congress, on the twenty-eighth of September, unanimously resolved to send the constitution adopted by the convention, and the accompanying letters, to the legislatures of the several states, and to recommend them to call conventions within their respective jurisdictions to consider it. And it was agreed, that when nine of the thirteen states should ratify it, it should become the fundamental law of the republic.
