its acceptance by at least nine states in special conventions.
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How the Constitution would be ratified
The Constitution itself was ratified in 1787. The Bill of Rights, the 1st ten amendments to the Constitution, was added to the Constitution in 1789.
The power of the purse.
If the framers had filled the Constitution with details and specific guidelines, it would have made things a lot harder to change in a generalized way.