The acts of the Legislatures of the States ratifying these amendments were transmitted by the governors to the President, and by him communicated to Congress. The Legislatures of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Georgia, do not appear by the record to have ratified them.
The 11th article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several States by a resolution of Congress passed on the 5th of March, 1794, at the first session of the Third Congress; and on the 8th of January, 1798, at the second session of the Fifth Congress, it was declared by the President, in a message to the two Houses of Congress, to have been adopted by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, there being at that time sixteen States in the Union.
The twelfth article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several States, there being then seventeen States, by a resolution of Congress passed on the 12th of December, 1803, at the first session of the Eighth Congress; and was ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, in 1804, according to a proclamation of the Secretary of State dated the 25th of September, 1804.
The thirteenth article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several States, there being then thirty-six States, by a resolution of Congress passed on the 1st of February, 1865, at the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, and was ratified, according to a proclamation of the Secretary of State dated December 18, 1865, by the Legislatures of the following States:
- Illinois, February 1, 1865.
- Rhode Island, February 2, 1865.
- Michigan, February 2, 1865.
- Maryland, February 3, 1865.
- New York, February 3, 1865.
- West Virginia, February 3, 1865.
- Massachusetts, February 3, 1865.
- Pennsylvania, February 3, 1865.
- Maine, February 7, 1865.
- Kansas, February 8, 1865.
- Ohio, February 8, 1865.
- Minnesota, February 7, 1865.
- Virginia, February 9, 1865.
- Indiana, February 13, 1865.
- Nevada, February 16, 1865.
- Louisiana, February 17, 1865.
- Wisconsin, February 21, 1865.
- Missouri, February 24, 1865.
- Tennessee, March 4, 1865.
- Vermont, March 9, 1865.
- Arkansas, April 14, 1865.
- Connecticut, May 4, 1865.
- New Hampshire, June 30, 1865.
- South Carolina, November 13, 1865.
- North Carolina, December 1, 1865.
- Alabama, December 2, 1865.
- Georgia, December 6, 1865.
The following States not enumerated in the proclamation of the Secretary of State, also ratified this amendment:
- Oregon, December 11, 1865.
- California, December 20, 1865.
- Florida, June 9, 1868.
The States of Delaware, New Jersey, and Kentucky rejected the amendment.
The fourteenth article was submitted to the Legislatures of the different States, there being then thirty-seven States, by a resolution of Congress passed on the 16th of June, 1866, at the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress; and was ratified, according to a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated July 28, 1868, by the Legislatures of the following States:
- Connecticut, June 30, 1866.
- New Hampshire, July 7, 1866.
- Tennessee, July 19, 1866.[[91]]
- New Jersey, September 11, 1866.[[92]]
- Oregon, September 19, 1866.
- Vermont, November 9, 1866.
- New York, January 10, 1867.[[93]]
- Ohio, January 11, 1867.
- Illinois, January 15, 1867.
- West Virginia, January 16, 1867.
- Kansas, January 18, 1867.
- Maine, January 19, 1867.
- Nevada, January 22, 1867.
- Missouri, January 26, 1867.
- Indiana, January 29, 1867.
- Minnesota, February 1, 1867.
- Rhode Island, February 7, 1867.
- Wisconsin, February 13, 1867.
- Pennsylvania, February 13, 1867.
- Michigan, February 15, 1867.
- Massachusetts, March 20, 1867.
- Nebraska, June 15, 1867.