Ratification of the Constitution
-- dates, states and votes --DateStateVotesYesNo1December 7, 1787Delaware3002December 11, 1787Pennsylvania46233December 18, 1787New Jersey3804January 2, 1788Georgia2605January 9, 1788Connecticut128406February 6, 1788Massachusetts1871687April 26, 1788Maryland63118May 23, 1788South Carolina149739June 21, 1788New Hampshire574710June 25, 1788Virginia897911July 26, 1788New York302712November 21, 1789North Carolina1947713May 29, 1790Rhode Island3432
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No. March 4, 1789 had been chosen as the doy the new government would open for business under the new Constitution. At that date the Constitution had been ratified by only 11 states. These were Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachussetts, maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia and New York. That was enough to adopt it. North Carolina and Rhode Island ratified it after it became effective.
Yes... Until each state ratified the Constitution it had no congressional representation and could not vote in presidential elections. North Carolina and Rhode Island did not vote in the first presidential election because they had not yet ratified the Constitution.
Although the original thirteen states were states under the Articles of Confederation, their official statehood dates are the dates on which they ratified the Constitution...
No, Article VII ofthe Constitution required 9 states to ratify it before it would become effective.
because if they didnt they would not have a constitution
actually, they only needed 9 out of 13 votes to ratify the constitution
No. The Constitution was ratified by the thirteen original colonies long before Kansas was US territory.
Article 7 of the Constitution was written to state that nine of the thirteen states had to ratify, or approve, the Constitution before it could go into effect.
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None. Until 1789 there was no US government and that is when the constitution was signed and Washington became President.
it had to be nine states to approve the constitution before it became a law HI