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all but Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island
When the US Constitution was revised it would not be ratified (go into effect) unless 9 states approved it and accepted it.
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same.
it had to be nine states to approve the constitution before it became a law HI
9 out of 13 states were needed to ratify the constitution
At least 9 of the thirteen had to approve it.
Madison would have been shocked and disappointed if the Constitution that he put so much work into had not been approved.
All 13 states had to ratify the US Constitution for it to take effect.
In 1790 eleven states raitfied the constitution so that it could take effect. It took ten months for them to get eleven states to actually raitfy the constitution.
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.
9 states
Only nine of the thirteen states had to vote to ratify or approve the United States Constitution. All thirteen states ultimately ratified the document that replaced the Articles of Confederation. On June 21, 1788 New Hampshire was the ninth state to ratify the Constitution and by May 20, 1790 with Rhode Island being the last state, all thirteen states approved ratification.