The Georgia Constitutional Ratification Convention unanimously ratifies the Constitution for the united States (YEA, 26; NAY, 0), making it the fourth State to secede from the Confederation.  This brings to five the number of States still necessary to put the Constitution into force.

        [updated 7/14/2023]

        Alexander Hamilton, a former Delegate, from New York, to the Constitutional Convention, using the penname “Publius,” publishes “Federalist #32,” seeking assuage fears that the ratification of the Constitution for the united States will result in the assimilation of the States into one indivisible nation.  In paragraph two he writes,

        An entire consolidation of the States into one complete national sovereignty would imply an entire subordination of the parts. … [T]he State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States [emphasis in the original].

        [restored 11/30/2024]