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t known that we, the delegates of the State of New Jersey, chosen by the people thereof for the purpose aforesaid, having maturely deliberated on and considered the aforesaid proposed Constitution, do hereby, for and on behalf of the people of the said State of New Jersey, agree to, ratify, and confirm the same, and every part thereof. Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the members present, this 18th day of December, A. D. 1787. Georgia next, and also unanimously, on January 2, 1788, declared, through the delegates of the State of Georgia, in convention met, pursuant to the provisions of the [act of the] Legislature aforesaid, . . . in virtue of the powers and authority given us [them] by the people of the said State, for that purpose, that they did fully and entirely assent to, ratify, and adopt the said Constitution. Connecticut (on the 9th of January) declares her assent with equal distinction of assertion as to the source of the authority: In the name of the