Signatures of the Delegates 485-487 The Issue presented 487 BOOK V. ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. CHAPTER I. GENERAL RECEPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION.--HOPES OF A REUNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN.--ACTION OF THE CONGRESS.--STATE OF FEELING IN MASSACHUSETTS, NEW YORK, VIRGINIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARYLAND, AND NEW HAMPSHIRE.--APPOINTMENT OF THEIR CONVENTIONS. Public Anxiety 491 Rumors about the Bishop of Osnaburg 492 Scheme of the Tories 493, 494 Publication of the Constitution 495 Its Friends and Opponents 495, 496 Position of the People 497, 498 Reception of the Instrument in Congress 499 Action upon it 500 Reception in Massachusetts 501 Reception in New York 502-504 Reception in Virginia 505, 506 Jefferson's Opinion 506, 507 Course recommended by Jefferson 508 Washington's Exertions 509 Patrick Henry's Course in the Legislature 510 Debate in the Legislature of South Carolina 511 Action of the Legislature of Maryland 512 Luther Martin's Address 512-514 State of Opinion in New Hampshire 514 The real Crisis anticipated 515 Chances for the Constitution 516 Uncertainty of the Result 517 CHAPTER II. RATIFICATIONS OF DELAWARE, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, GEORGIA, AND CONNECTICUT, WITHOUT OBJECTION.--CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1787.--BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1788.--RATIFICATION OF MASSACHUSETTS, THE SIXTH STATE, WITH PROPOSITIONS OF AMENDMENT.--RATIFICATION OF MARYLAND WITHOUT OBJECTION.--SOUTH CAROLINA, THE EIGHTH STATE, ADOPTS, AND ADOPTS, AND PROPOSES AMENDMENTS. Delaware ratifies unanimously 518 _Prestige_ of Philadelphia 519 James Wilson in the Convention of Pennsylvania 520 His Defence of the Constitution 521-524 Ratification of Pennsylvania 524 Position of New Jersey 524, 525