July 1, 1971
There have been 4 Illinois constitutions. The first, adopted in 1818 when Illinois was admitted to the Union, followed by constitutions ratified in 1848, 1870, and 1970 which is the current constitution.
The present Constitution of the United States is the original Constitution of the United States. It was ratified 17 September 1787. The Constitution has been amended 27 times, and the 27th Amendment was ratified 7 May 1992.
Article 7 of the Constitution
only 27 of the 31 amendments proposed have been ratified
As of July 2014 the United States Constitution has been amended 27 times. The most recent is XXVII ratified in 1992.
26. The 27th Amendment, proposed in 1789, was not ratified completely until 1992, almost 203 years later.
It was ratified in November of 1889 and has been amended 91 times.
The US constitution was ratified by the governments of the original 13 colonies. The remaining 37 states of the union implicity ratified the constitution just by applying to join the existing union./nine states
33 amendments have been proposed, 27 of those have been ratified and are part of the Constitution.
As of 2017 the US Constitution has 27 amendments. 33 have been passed by the US Congress, but 6 of them were never ratified by the requisite number of states - leaving just the extant 27 amendments.
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amendments