Here’s how long it took to ratify the Constitution by the states.
We have a holiday, parades and light fireworks to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But the Constitution? The legal pact we all love and argue about and, in some cases, die to defend? Sept. 17 marks the 236th anniversary of the day the framers signed the document and sent it to the states for ratification. It took another three years before all the states signed on to the Constitution.The Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.
Article III establishes the judicial branch with the U.S. Supreme Court as the federal court system’s highest court.It took 10 months for the first nine states to ratify the Constitution and make it effective on June 21, 1788. The rest of the states later approved, including Rhode Island, which did not attend the Constitutional Convention. Several states were unanimously in favor, but many were heavily contested.C) The entire ConstitutionA.
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