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  2. Timeline of drafting and ratification of the United States ...

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    New York becomes the eleventh state to ratify the Constitution (30–27). [38] [39] In addition to ratifying the constitution, New York issues a circular letter requesting that 33 alterations be made to it, and also that the new United States Congress take positive action on all amendments demanded by other state ratifying conventions. [59]

  3. Constitution of New York - Wikipedia

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    The Fourth New York Provincial Congress, resolving itself as the Convention of Representatives of the State of New York, adopted the first constitution of the state of New York on April 20, 1777. The Province of New York was established after the naval invasion and absorption of the previous Dutch Colony of New Netherlands.

  4. New York Circular Letter - Wikipedia

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    The New York Circular Letter was a solution reached in a controversy between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over ratification of the United States Constitution.The compromise built on earlier deals like the Massachusetts Compromise to call for the use of the Convention provision written into the newly ratified Constitution in order to get the amendments demanded by New York and other states.

  5. History of New York (state) - Wikipedia

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    The decline of aristocracy in the politics of New York (1918) online. Ingalls, Robert P. Herbert H. Lehman and New York's Little New Deal (1975) on 1930s online; Kammen, Michael (1996) [1975]. Colonial New York: a History. New York City: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510779-9. Klein, Milton M. (ed.) and the New York State Historical ...

  6. History of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The new government began on March 4, 1789, with eleven states assembled in New York City. North Carolina waited to ratify the Constitution until after the Bill of Rights was passed by the new Congress, and Rhode Island's ratification would only come after a threatened trade embargo.

  7. Timeline of voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of the United States recognizes that the states have the power to set voting requirements. A few states allowed free Black men to vote, and New Jersey also included unmarried and widowed women who owned property. [1] Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying White males (about 6% of the population). [2]

  8. A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution barring discrimination based on “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” was restored to the November election ballot Tuesday by a state ...

  9. 1st New York State Legislature - Wikipedia

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    The 4th Provincial Congress of the Colony of New York convened at White Plains on July 9, 1776, and declared the independence of the State of New York. The next day the delegates re-convened as the "Convention of Representatives of the State of New-York" and on August 1 a committee was appointed to prepare a State Constitution.