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L 225 1 Dinth section of the first article ; and that no state without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate. ARTICLE VI. I. All debts contracted, and engagements enter- ed into before the adoption of the constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this con- stitution, as under tin* confederation. II. Tuis constitution, and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof ; and a I treaties made, or vhich s iall be made, un- der the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the 'and ; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the con- stitution or laws of any state to the contrary not- withstanding III. The senators and representatives before me tioned, and the mcmbe s of the several state le- gislatur -, 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 re- quired as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. ARTICLE VII. The ratification of the conventions of nine states shall be sufficient for the establishment of this con- stitution, between the states so ratifying the same. Djne in convention, b the unanimous Consent of the states present, the seventeenth day of Sep- tember. in the vear of our Lord one thousand 3eveu bundied and eighty seve.n; and of the in- U þ)