Any changes or amendments to the Constitution need to be ratified by three-fourths of the states. Out of 50 states, this totals 38.
The document needed to be ratified by a unanimous vote of all thirteen colonies. The first state to ratify was Virginia on December 16, 1777. It did not become a binding document to legally establish the union of the states until March 1, 1781, when Maryland finally ratified the document.
The U.S. Constitution required the ratification of ten of the thirteen states to go into effect. Eventually all thirteen ratified it.
The states ratified it and congress passed it.
Septemeber 17, 1987 - the proposed U.S. Constitution was signed. June 21, 1788 - Constitution ratified by New Hampshire, thus making for nine of the thirteen states needed for official ratification of the U.S. Constitution. May 29, 1790 - Constitution is ratified by all 13 states of the U.S.
The Articles of Confederation was the document that was ratified in 1781. This document established a confederation of sovereign states.
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It needed to be ratified by 9 of 13 states.
What decisions needed to be approved by the states from the Articles of Confederation
It still would have been ratified. Only 9 out of 13 states were needed.
It did not pass because it was not ratified by 38 states (or 3/4 of the states) which it needed to be to become an amendment.
"The states ratified the Constitution."
All 13 states ratified the U.S. Constitution, which was considered in effect after two-thirds of them (9) had done so.All 13 ratified the U.S. Constitution. They only needed 9.9 - apex
The document needed to be ratified by a unanimous vote of all thirteen colonies. The first state to ratify was Virginia on December 16, 1777. It did not become a binding document to legally establish the union of the states until March 1, 1781, when Maryland finally ratified the document.
The U.S. Constitution required the ratification of ten of the thirteen states to go into effect. Eventually all thirteen ratified it.
The states ratified it and congress passed it.
Only the 21st Amendment (repealing the 18th) was ratified by conventions in the states.