Because God wanted it to be so. Let there be light!
Missourians wrote a Constitution in 1943-44 and ratified in 1945 to get rid of corrupt departments of their government.
The Missouri Constitution was approved in the year of 1945.
The Missouri Constitution was approved in the year of 1945.
The first Missouri Constitution was written in 1820 and went into effect that same year. The current Missouri Constitution was adopted and went into effect in 1945.
A bill of rights was not included in the Constitution because most of those who wrote it did not think one was needed. What we now call the Bill of Rights was added as the first ten amendments to the constitution because the States would not ratify the Constitution without a promise that such a Bill would be added.
Texas wrote its first constitution in 1836, but its current constitution has been in place since February 15, 1876. The Texas Bill of Rights is contained in Article 1 of its current constitution.
Ratified
u.s. constitution was ratified on September 17, 1787
The Constitution was ratified December 7, 1787.
The Constitution was ratified by the Constitutional Convention members in 1887.
The Great Compromise helped get the constitution ratified.
The US Constitution was ratified on June 21, 1788.