1889 Washington State Constitution signatures.

This is a scan of a certified copy of the 1898 Washington State Constitution Convention Proceedings.

Note how the signatures are all in the same handwriting.
These signatures appear at the very end of the constitutional convention proceedings and just preceeding these signatures is the entire constitution written out for the record. If one were to say they had the original copy, this would have to be it.
But look below for another original of this constitution!

Below is a copy of the last three pages of the other original 1889 constitution on file at the Washington State Archives.

This copy at the Archives is bound. Between the last page of the constitution and the signatures is a blank page. This divorces the signatures from the document and renders them void. Now if this is the original copy, then what is what we just saw above?

Following this signature page was a blank page. I won't bother showing it to you here because blank is not very interesting but believe me, if you check it out yourself you will see a blank page here. To help you get the visual effect I enclose a fake blank page here..

Trust me, it's blank.

Now follows the signature page on original copy number two at the state archives.
Note how they are in a simple single column. There isn't a thing on this page to indicate what the signatures are for. Would you sign a contract this way? For all we know, these could have been grabbed from a guest list ledger.

Remember, these are the signatures that grant power to the government to exist and do what the constitution allows them to. These signatures represent the power of the people of the State of Washington exercising their sovreign rights as We the People
These signatures are the legal nexus for the current State of Washington.