Pennsylvania State House
December 12, 1787
Delegates to the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention meet at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) to voted to ratify the Constitution.
[box] 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.[/box]
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