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Constitution of the United States

supreme law of the United States of America since March 4th, 1789

19 dated entries naming Constitution of the United States, drawn from 9 separate years between 1787 CE and 1948 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1787May 25 – In Philadelphia, delegates begin to convene the Constitutional Convention, intended to amend the Articles of Confederation (however, a new United States Constitution is eventually produced). George Washington presides over the Convention.source
  • 1787September 17 – The United States Constitution is signed by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.source
  • 1787October 27 – The first of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, is published in The Independent Journal, a New York newspaper.source
  • 1788January 2 – Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fourth U.S. state under the new government.source
  • 1788January 9 – Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fifth U.S. state.source
  • 1788February 6 – Massachusetts ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the sixth U.S. state.source
  • 1788April 28 – Maryland ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the seventh U.S. state.source
  • 1788May 23 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the eighth U.S. state.source
  • 1788June 21 – New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the ninth U.S. state, enabling the Constitution to go into effect. (The latter happens on March 4, 1789, when the first Congress elected under the new Constitution assembles.)source
  • 1788June 25 – The Virginia Ratifying Convention ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the tenth U.S. state under the new government.source
  • 1788July 26 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the eleventh U.S. state.source
  • 1789March 4 – At Federal Hall in New York City, the 1st United States Congress meets, and declares the new United States Constitution to be in effect. The bicameral United States Congress replaces the unicameral Congress of the Confederation, as the legislature of the federal government of the United States.source
  • 1789November 21 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the 12th U.S. state.source
  • 1790May 29 – Rhode Island ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the last of the 13 original states to do so.source
  • 1791December 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.source

19th century

  • 1806September 9 – William Paterson, Irish-born American judge, signer of the United States Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)source
  • 1836March 17 – Texas Revolution – Convention of 1836: Delegates adopt the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, modeled after the United States Constitution. It allows slavery, requires free blacks to petition Congress to live in the country, but prohibits the slave trade.source
  • 1848September 12 – One of the successes of the Revolutions of 1848, the Swiss Federal Constitution, patterned on the Constitution of the United States, enters into force, creating a federal republic, and one of the first modern democratic states in Europe.source

20th century

  • 1948March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution.source

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