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. 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
True.
The document that was written before the Constitution was the Articles of Confederation.
Article VII of the US Constitution required 9 states to ratify it before it became effective.
New Hampshire was the ninth state to ratify the US Constitution on June 21, 1788. Article VII of the Constitution stated that 9 states had to ratify it before it became effective.
No. The Constitution was ratified by the thirteen original colonies long before Kansas was US territory.
You didn't even phrase that as a question, it was a statement with a question mark at the end of it. Did you mean "Did all thirteen COLONIES have to approve the Constitution?" The answer is no, and some did not in time anyway.
Article VII of the Constitution required nine of thirteen states to ratify the Constitution for it to become law. In June 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state. Rhode Island was the last of the states to ratify, in May 1790.
December 15, 1791 was the date that Virginia became the 11th state to ratify the Bill of Rights. At that point, the Bill of Rights were effective.
December 15, 1791 was the date that Virginia became the 11th state to ratify the Bill of Rights. At that point, the Bill of Rights were effective.
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.
2/3 of the states had to approve it before the Constitution became the law of the land. But even then it was only the law of the land for the states that had ratified it..
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