The first of the Thirteen colonies to sign the constitution was the state of Deleware, the first state to be admitted into the Union. Many people critisize this because the first colony to be founded was Virginia by the British, but in terms of the US history, Delaware was the first state to rattify and sign the constituion. Hense its nickname "the first state"
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the first foreign port to acknowledge the independence of the 13 colonies is the port of Spain
Connecticut is known as "The Consitution State" because it was the first of the original thirteen states to ratify the new US Constitution.
September 17, 1787. The answer that was first here was 1776. I am sorry but that is not the right answer because it was a year that a famous document was signed but not this one. In 1776 The Declaration Of Independence was signed. The Constitution couldn't have come before The Declaration Of Independence, because the Constitution is a document listing the law of The United States Of America... We weren't in control of Great Britain when the Constitution was written.
The constitution was established by the several states that were party to the Articles of Confederation. These are the original 13 colonies.
The Articles of Confederation