It was North Carolina. I found the answer on another site but forgot to grab the tag for it.
All fifty. Here's the deal: When the United States converts a piece of land from a Territory to a State, its government is required to ratify the Constitution. The Ninth Amendment was written before the thirteen original colonies became states, and to join the Union as a state each colony had to ratify the Constitution in its entirety. All fifty states have ratified the Constitution, hence all fifty states have approved the Ninth Amendment.
George Washington was the president of the Constitutional Convention that voted to replace the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution.
The requirement of ratification by nine states (in order for the Constitution to take effect), set by Article Seven of the Constitution, was met when New Hampshire voted to ratify, on June 21, 1788.
Consider how the U.S. Senate voted on the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. 36 Republicans and 20 Democrats voted in favor of ratification. 8 Republicans and 17 Democrats voted against ratification. The Democratic Party was nearly split on the decision where as Republicans were more unified in the decision to give women the right to vote.
That could be Kentucky or Missouri, which both had three borders with free-soil states. But they had also stayed in the Union, as 'buffer states' that had voted against joining he Confederacy.
The states voted.
12
Those were the states that voted on the first approved US Constitution.
The CSA (Confederate States of America) Constitution was written by Robert Barnwell Rhett. It was basically a rewrite of the original Constitution of the United States with a little rewording.
The Lecompton Constitution included provisions for allowing slavery in Kansas even if the people voted against slavery.
prominent delegates who voted to ratify the constitution and why?
I think its Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
They would not have enough state votes to pass the constitution if slavery was outlawed by it. The south would have voted against it.
They were slave-states that had narrowly voted against joining the Confederacy.
Although Senator Lieberman voted to enact DOMA in 1996, ten years later he voted against a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would have banned same-sex marriage. Nevertheless, in 2000 he declared that he was against gay marriage, but has also voted in favor of hate crimes and employment non-discrimination legislation.
North Carolina!!
Delaware was the first colony to become state.