The Delaware Constitutional Ratification Convention unanimously ratifies the Constitution for the united States (YEA, 30; NAY, 0), making it the first State to secede from the Confederation. This brings to eight the number of States still necessary to put the Constitution into force.
[updated 7/14/2023]
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Authority:
Articles of Confederation, Article XIII
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References:
“Chronology of Events, 1774-1804,” from The Debate on the Constitution, two volumes, Bernard Bailyn, ed., (New York: Library of America, 1993), 2:1064.
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