The states that were crucial to the constitutions success were New York, Virginia, and North Carolina.
States wrote constitutions because at the time the "US"was not formed together into one big country, so all the states had to go into a sort of meeting to get together and write it.
Wrote their own constitutions.
Wrote their own constitutions
a. bicameral
The Southern States were to organise conventions which had to amend their own constitutions so as to conform them with the Constitution of the United States, including the incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
State constitutions constrain the states themselves.The states adopted the U.S. Constitution to form the federal government.
State constitutions
The answer is in the Preamble.
Territories had constitutions that had to be approved by congress while states did not have to have their constitutions approved. Before a territory could enter the Union they needed to draft an acceptable state constitution.
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The Reconstruction was a success in that it restored the United States as a unified nation: by 1877, all of the former Confederate states had drafted new constitutions, acknowledged the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and pledged their loyalty to the U.S. government.
Many of the states used their royal charters as a foundation and basis for their state constitutions
States wrote constitutions because at the time the "US"was not formed together into one big country, so all the states had to go into a sort of meeting to get together and write it.
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New york
governer
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