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It ended on September 17, 1787, the day the Frame of Government drafted by the convention's delegates to replace the Articles was adopted and signed. The ratification process for the Constitution began that day, and ended when the final state, Rhode Island, ratified it on May 29, 1790.
Pennsylvania ratified on December 12, 1787, by a vote of 46 to 23 (66.67%). New Jersey ratified on December 19, 1787, and Georgia on January 2, 1788, both unanimously. The requirement of ratification by nine states, set by Article Seven of the Constitution, was met when New Hampshire voted to ratify, on June 21, 1788.
Historian John Ferling argues that, in 1787, only the federalists, a relatively small share of the population, viewed the era as a "Critical Period". [130] Michael Klarman argues that the decade marked a high point of democracy and egalitarianism, and views the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 as a conservative counter-revolution. [131]
These negotiations and the ratification of the treaty in January 1784 officially ended the American Revolutionary War. According to the Library of Congress, two stipulations decided upon were ...
1 Delaware – December 7, 1787 30 0 100% 2 Pennsylvania – December 12, 1787 46 23 67% 3 New Jersey – December 18, 1787 38 0 100% 4 Georgia – January 2, 1788 26 0 100% 5 Connecticut – January 9, 1788 128 40 76% 6 Massachusetts – February 6, 1788 187 168 53% 7 Maryland – April 28, 1788 63 11 85% 8 South Carolina – May 23, 1788
Events from the year 1787 in the United States. The United States Constitution was written and the ratification process began ... (1781–1788) Northwest ...
Ratification took months (in the case of Delaware, which ratified on Dec. 7, 1787) or years (Rhode Island ratified on May 29, 1790). What sets the Carolina document apart is Thomson's signature ...
The minimum bid for the auction is $1 million. There is no minimum price that must be reached. This copy was printed after the Constitutional Convention approved the proposed framework of the nation's government in 1787 and it was ratified by the Congress of the ineffective first American government under the Articles of Confederation.