Ratifications of the Constitution.[[90]]

Of the thirteen States which originally composed the Union under the Confederation, eleven ratified the Constitution prior to the 4th of March, 1789, the time fixed by the resolution of September 13, 1788, for commencing proceedings under it, viz:

Of the other two States, North Carolina ratified the Constitution on the 21st of November, 1789; of which, information was communicated to Congress by the President, in a message dated January 28, 1790.

Rhode Island ratified it on the 29th of May, 1790; of which, also, information was communicated to Congress by the President, in a message dated June 1, 1790.

The State of Vermont, by convention, ratified the Constitution on the 10th of January, 1791, and was, by an act of Congress of the 18th of February, 1791, “received and admitted into this Union as a new and entire member of the United States of America.”

Ratifications of the Amendments to the Constitution.

From W. J. McDonald’s “Constitution, Rules and Manual.”

The first ten of the preceding articles of amendment, (with two others which were not ratified by the requisite number of States,) were submitted to the several State Legislatures by a resolution of Congress which passed on the 25th of September, 1789, at the first session of the First Congress, and were ratified by the Legislatures of the following States: