After it was ratified by New Hampshire – the ninth state – on June 22, 1788, the Constitution was made official. March 9, 1789 , became the official date the Confederation Congress operated ...

This amendment was ratified over two centuries after the original Constitution was ratified. ... This amendment was included as one of the Bill of Rights when submitted to Congress in 1789.

On June 21, 1788, the US constitution was ratified and became the law after New Hampshire became the ninth of the 13 states ...

New Hampshire became the requisite ninth state to ratify the Constitution. The date was June 21, 1788. Under the new United States Constitution, ... on March 4, 1789.

Trump is the kinglike president many feared when arguing over the US Constitution in 1789 – and his address to Congress showed it. Story by Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino ...

The Bill of Rights, containing the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, were ratified on this day in history, Dec. 15, 1791 — enumerating rights and protections cherished by Americans.

An extremely rare historical artifact, a signed ratification copy of the U.S. Constitution, ... He was North Carolina’s governor from 1787 to 1789, ...

Nor was the discomfort due solely to the document’s jarring brevity – at 4,543 words, the U.S. Constitution is the shortest written Constitution of any major nation in the world.

Since 1789, Congress has sent 33 constitutional amendments to the states for ratification. Twenty-seven of those amendments were eventually ratified and became part of the Constitution.Here’s ...

In 1789 only White men who owned property had the right to vote. ... The 12th Amendment to the Constitution (ratified in 1804) mandated that presidents and vice presidents be elected together.

Johnston, who served as North Carolina's governor from 1787 to 1789, ... The last time a state-ratified copy of the Constitution sold was in 1891 for just $400. In 2021, ...