The Essentials of American Constitutional LawThorpe, Francis Newton
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The Essentials of American Constitutional Law
Thorpe, Francis Newton
Constitutional law -- United States
New Jersey, November 20, 1789.
Maryland, December 19, 1789.
North Carolina, December 22, 1789.
South Carolina, January 19, 1790.
New Hampshire, January 25, 1790.
Delaware, January 28, 1790.
Pennsylvania, March 10, 1790.
New York, March 27, 1790.
Rhode Island, June 15, 1790.
Vermont, November 3, 1791.
Virginia, December 15, 1791.
The acts of the Legislatures of the States ratifying these amendments
were transmitted by the governors to the President, and by him
communicated to Congress. The Legislatures of Massachusetts,
Connecticut, and Georgia, do not appear by the record to have ratified
them.
The eleventh article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several
States by a resolution of Congress passed on the 5th of March, 1794,
at the first session of the Third Congress; and on the 8th of January,
1798, at the second session of the Fifth Congress, it was declared by
the President, in a message to the two Houses of Congress, to have been
adopted by the Legislatures of three fourths of the States, there being
at that time sixteen States in the Union.
The twelfth article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several
States, there being then seventeen States, by a resolution of Congress
passed on the 12th of December, 1803, at the first session of the
Eighth Congress; and was ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths
of the States, in 1804, according to a proclamation of the Secretary of
State dated the 25th of September, 1804.
The thirteenth article was submitted to the Legislatures of the several
States, there being then thirty-six States, by a resolution of Congress
passed on the 1st of February, 1865, at the second session of the
Thirty-eighth Congress, and was ratified, according to a proclamation
of the Secretary of State dated December 18, 1865, by the Legislatures
of the following States:
Illinois, February 1, 1865.
Rhode Island, February 2, 1865.
Michigan, February 2, 1865.
Maryland, February 3, 1865.
New York, February 3, 1865.
West Virginia, February 3, 1865.
Maine, February 7, 1865.
Kansas, February 7, 1865.
Massachusetts, February 8, 1865.
Pennsylvania, February 8, 1865.
Virginia, February 9, 1865.
Ohio, February 10, 1865.
Missouri, February 10, 1865.
Indiana, February 16, 1865.
Nevada, February 16, 1865.
Louisiana, February 17, 1865.
Minnesota, February 23, 1865.
Wisconsin, March 1, 1865.
Vermont, March 9, 1865.
Tennessee, April 7, 1865.
Arkansas, April 20, 1865.
Connecticut, May 5, 1865.
New Hampshire, July 1, 1865.
South Carolina, November 13, 1865.
Alabama, December 2, 1865.
North Carolina, December 4, 1865.
Georgia, December 9, 1865.
The following States not enumerated in the proclamation of the
Secretary of State also ratified this amendment:
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