1788 newspaper VIRGINIA RATIFIES the US CONSTITUTION
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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Massachusetts Centinel (Boston, MA) dated July 16, 1788. Inside page early report in this newspaper that the STATE of VIRGINIA just RATIFIED the US CONSTITUTION. There is also a long detailed inside page account of the parade in Philadelphia in honor of Pennsylvania's ratification of the new US CONSTITUTION. The United States Constitution was written in 1787; however, it did not take full effect until it was ratified in 1788, when it replaced the Articles of Confederation . It remains the basic law of the United States federal government. The first state to ratify the Constitution was Delaware, the last to ratify the Constitution was Rhode Island. When the U.S. Constitution was represented to the states many people chose to be either Federalists or Anti-Federalists. Virginia and many other states were also against the Constitution because there was no bill of rights included in it. James Madison was known as the "Father of the Constitution". James Madison and John Jay were two people who were Federalists, but not all of the delegates of the Constitution were Federalist. One of them, George Mason, was an
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