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The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
Since then, 37 states have been admitted into the Union. Each new state has been admitted on an equal footing with those already in existence. [2] Of the 37 states admitted to the Union by Congress, all but six have been established within existing U.S. organized incorporated territories. A state that was so created might encompass all or part ...
In each act of admission since that of Tennessee in 1796, Congress has specified that the new state joins the Union "on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever". [1] Previously, when Vermont was admitted in 1791, its act of admission said Vermont was to be "a new and entire member" of the United States.
Even though each became a state upon declaring independence from Gt. Britain, and became part of the first Union of states upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, between 1777-81, the statehood date for each has historically been given as the date they ratified the 1787 Constitution, thus joining the 2nd federal Union of states. Thus ...
NEW YORK - Sean "Diddy" Combs is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday, 138 days before his trial. The rapper and music producer has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn ...
The other elections in New York are for a six-year term for U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's seat; two-year terms for each of the state's 26 seats in the House of Representatives; and two-year terms ...
The Court ruled that the union was subject to an injunction and liable for the payment of triple damages. In 1915 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, speaking for the Court, again decided in favor of Loewe, upholding a lower federal court ruling ordering the union to pay damages of $252,130. (The cost of lawyers had already exceeded $100,000, paid ...
"The company should be concerned because this is just the beginning," Michelle Eisen, a Starbucks barista in Buffalo, New York, and a member of the union's bargaining team, told ABC News.