North Carolina ratifies the Constitution for the united States (194-77), rendering the Articles of Confederation redundant, as Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is the only State that has not ratified. This brings the balance, in the Senate, of free States and slave States to five free and seven slave.
[restored 10/10/2021]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article VII, Section 1
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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), 2:1072.
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