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George Washington presides over the Convention.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370561702#April–June", "title": "1787", "revid": 1370561702, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1787, "year_label": "1787 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 17", "text": "September 17 – The United States Constitution is signed by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370561702#July–September", "title": "1787", "revid": 1370561702, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1788, "year_label": "1788 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 28", "text": "April 28 – Maryland ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the seventh U.S. state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357260814#April–June", "title": "1788", "revid": 1357260814, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1788, "year_label": "1788 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 6", "text": "February 6 – Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the sixth U.S. state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357260814#January–March", "title": "1788", "revid": 1357260814, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1788, "year_label": "1788 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 2", "text": "January 2 – Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fourth U.S. state under the new government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357260814#January–March", "title": "1788", "revid": 1357260814, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1788, "year_label": "1788 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 9", "text": "January 9 – Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fifth U.S. state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357260814#January–March", "title": "1788", "revid": 1357260814, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1788, "year_label": "1788 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 26", "text": "July 26 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the eleventh U.S. state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357260814#July–September", "title": "1788", "revid": 1357260814, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1788, "year_label": "1788 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 21", "text": "June 21 – New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the ninth U.S. state, enabling the Constitution to go into effect. 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The bicameral United States Congress replaces the unicameral Congress of the Confederation, as the legislature of the federal government of the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818853#January–March", "title": "1789", "revid": 1368818853, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1789, "year_label": "1789 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 21", "text": "November 21 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the 12th U.S. state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818853#October–December", "title": "1789", "revid": 1368818853, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1790, "year_label": "1790 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 29", "text": "May 29 – Rhode Island ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the last of the 13 original states to do so.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361336081#April–June", "title": "1790", "revid": 1361336081, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1791, "year_label": "1791 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 15", "text": "December 15 – Ratification by the states of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution is completed, creating the United States Bill of Rights. Two additional amendments remain pending, and one of these is finally ratified in 1992, becoming the Twenty-seventh Amendment.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365416177#October–December", "title": "1791", "revid": 1365416177, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1806, "year_label": "1806 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 9", "text": "September 9 – William Paterson, Irish-born American judge, signer of the United States Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368311144#July–December", "title": "1806", "revid": 1368311144, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}, {"year": 1836, "year_label": "1836 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 17", "text": "March 17 – Texas Revolution – Convention of 1836: Delegates adopt the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, modeled after the United States Constitution. 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