The founders of our country understood that a fresh start under federal law is so essential to the fiscal health and economic vitality of our country; they included the right to file bankruptcy in Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.

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.

  • Go Washington - President and deputy from Virginia
  • New Hampshire - John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman
  • Massachusetts - Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King
  • Connecticut - Wm Saml Johnson, Roger Sherman
  • New York - Alexander Hamilton
  • New Jersey - Wil Livingston, David Brearley, Wm Paterson, Jona. Dayton
  • Pensylvania - B Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robt Morris, Geo. Clymer, Thos FitzSimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouv Morris
  • Delaware - Geo. Read, Gunning Bedford jun, John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jaco. Broom
  • Maryland - James McHenry, Dan of St Tho Jenifer, Danl Carroll
  • Virginia - John Blair, James Madison Jr.
  • North Carolina - Wm Blount, Richd Dobbs Spaight, Hu Williamson
  • South Carolina - J. Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler
  • Georgia - William Few, Abr Baldwin
  • Attest: William Jackson, Secretary

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