No, thirteen states existed first.
They were called the Thirteen Colonies.
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Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy. It has three federal districts and thirteen states. A federal constitutional monarchy is the form of government in which there are a federation of states with a monarch as the head of it all. An example of this is the German Empire.
The 13 Colonies
Connecticut is known as "The Consitution State" because it was the first of the original thirteen states to ratify the new US Constitution.
Colonies
there was thirteen southern states?????? there was thirteen southern states??????
There were still just the original thirteen states at the time. Twelve of them sent delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Rhode Island was the one that did not participate.
These reps were called delegates.
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The Constitutional Convention of 1787 required approval from nine out of the thirteen states for the new Constitution to go into effect. This requirement was established in Article VII of the Constitution. Ultimately, the Constitution was ratified by the necessary nine states by June 1788, allowing it to be enacted.