Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York
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1 Delaware, 2 Pennsylvania, 3 New Jersey, 4 New Hampshire, 5 Connecticut.
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Pennsylvania ratified the US Constitution on December 11, 1787, just 4 days after the first state, which was Delaware.
On December 7, 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the US Constitution.
The three states that ratified the U.S. Constitution by the narrowest margins were Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Delaware was the first state to ratify, doing so by a vote of 30 to 0, but Pennsylvania had a closer margin of 46 to 23. New Jersey ratified the Constitution with a vote of 39 to 26. These narrow margins highlighted the contentious debates surrounding the Constitution during its adoption.
The original colonies that formed the United States, in the order that they each ratified the Constitution, were:DelawarePennsylvaniaNew JerseyGeorgiaConnecticutMassachusettsMarylandSouth CarolinaNew HampshireVirginiaNew YorkNorth CarolinaRhode Island
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24 originally, but after a second vote, 30.