During the ratification debates, the Constitution’s advocates ... of presidential electors in the ratifying states by January 1789, the first presidential vote by the electors in February ...

On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, allowing the passage of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Virginia was the tenth of fourteen states to ratify the ...

So many states feared the expanded powers of the new national government that they insisted on amendments during the Constitution's ratification ... became the first state to grant women the ...

(NewsNation) — Delaware was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787 and according to a new report, it’s first again, topping this year’s list of best states to retire.

Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so, and was admitted to the Union. In 1811, Timothy Pickering, a Federalist from Massachusetts, became the first U.S ...

Our constitution has been amended only 27 times in its 236 years of existence. It is very hard to change. In fact, the U.S.

In any event, three-fourths of the state legislatures must ratify the amendment for it to become a permanent part of the Constitution. Calling for a convention to amend the Constitution might ...

Our first president, George Washington, said of the Constitution, “The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon.” ...

We at the Amsterdam News wanted to take a second to talk about the U.S. Constitution, one of the most influential and “living” legal documents in the world.

Article VII states that the ratification of nine states shall be sufficient to enact the Constitution ... great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the ...