The Constitution of the United States as the basic laws of the country was adopted in __________ .?
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It was written in 1787 in Philadelphia by the Continental Congress of the new American republic and was officially adopted in 1789.http://www.usconstitution.com/
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The term "united States of America" was first used officially in the Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776. On November 15, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first of which stated "The Stile [sic] of this Confederacy shall be 'The United States of America.'" The name was originally proposed by Thomas Paine.
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The Articles of Confederation weren't working, so our Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia to fix it.  They soon decided that it couldn't be fixed, so they started from scratch and wrote the constitution.  The Constitution then had to be ratified by 3/4 of the states, before it went into affect.  The Constitution is full of compromises on controversial issues.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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The original constitution of 1777 is at the website below.
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Since it's quite obvious that English is not your native language, and that you've never even seen the Constitution, may I ask how you've heard of this document?  Did you read about it on the back of your Kid's Meal bag?
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Because at the time, it seemed to make the most sense to everyone.  Some people agreed and others disagreed on some aspects of it but it appeased the majority of people in each state.  Off the top of my head that is what I can come up with at the time.    Dude I answered like two of your history questions.    Do you need things for a history class by the way??  Go to constituioncenter.org if you need more info on the constitution.  Hope that helps!!
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How about being the first state to ratify the Constitution?
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actually it was august 2nd 1776. it was adopted by congress on july 4th but most of the delegates didnt sign it until august 2nd
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The founding fathers, writers of the constitution.
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From 1777 to 1788 when the Constitution was ratified, the Articles of Confederation was the governing document of the United States. The articles gave the majority of power to the states to establish their own laws. The Constitution was written by the Second Continental Congress in order to give the federal government more authority. The Bill of Rights was written in 1789 in response to concerns that the constitution gave the federal government too much power.
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The Constitution was ratified by the states in the following order:\n#   Date-State Yea/Nay/Approval\n1.  December 7, 1787-Delaware 30/0/100%\n2.  December 12, 1787-Pennsylvania 46/23/67%\n3.  December 18, 1787-New Jersey 38/0/100%\n4.  January 2, 1788-Georgia 26/0/100%\n5.  January 9, 1788-Connecticut 128/40/76%\n6.  February 6, 1788-Massachusetts 187/168/53%\n7.  April 28, 1788-Maryland 63/11/85%\n8.  May 23, 1788-South Carolina 149/73/67%\n9.  June 21, 1788-New Hampshire 57/47/55%\n10.  June 25, 1788-Virginia 89/79/53%\n11.  July 26, 1788-New York 30/27/53%\n12.  November 21, 1789-North Carolina 194/77/72%\n13.  May 29, 1790-Rhode Island 34/32/52%
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Well, each state had to ratify the Constitution before it became effective. So, the debates in each state determined whether the state supported it or not.\n\nSurely, you're looking for something more specific than that.
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In the summer of 1787, delegates from 13 new American states, recently British colonies, met in Philadelphia to write a constitution for a unified nation. By September, they had produced a document that then began to circulate among the state legislatures for ratification. The new constitution provided a blueprint for how the national government would function, but it did not contain a section specifically outlining the rights of individual citizens. A public debate quickly arose. Advocates of the draft constitution argued that guarantees of individual rights were not needed. Others, however, aware of the explicit rights guaranteed in earlier documents such as the British Bill of Rights (1689) and the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, believed that some specific provision stating the rights of individuals was necessary.\n\nAt the height of the debate, in December 1787, Thomas Jefferson, then serving as ambassador to France, wrote a letter to his friend James Madison, one of the chief authors of the new constitution. "A bill of rights," Jefferson wrote, "is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."\n\nJefferson's position gained advocates, and a compromise was reached. State legislatures agreed to ratify the draft document with the understanding that the first national legislature meeting under the new constitution would pass amendments guaranteeing individual liberties. That is precisely what occurred. By 1791, these 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, had become part of the supreme law of the land.\n\nMuch about this controversy at the very beginning of the American experiment in democracy prefigures later developments in U.S. politics and constitutional law. Intense views on both sides were moderated by a complicated, yet highly pragmatic compromise. Also significant is that Jefferson saw explicit limits on government power as a necessity. In fact, the Bill of Rights can be read as the definitive statement of that most American of values: the idea that the individual is prior to and takes precedence over any government.\n\nAs the title "The Rights of the People: Individual Freedom and the Bill of Rights" suggests, this book is our effort to explain how the core concepts of individual liberty and individual rights have evolved under the U.S. legal system down the present day.\n\nIt is intended for a great variety of readers. One obvious use is in secondary school or university classrooms. To that end, we are creating an on-line Discussion Guide with accompanying questions and background references. Please look for it on the World Wide Web at: http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/\n\nA non-American reader may well ask, "But what does all this have to do with me? In my country we have a different legal tradition and there is no bill of rights."\n\nIt is true that the U.S. Bill of Rights is the historical product of a particular time and place. It arose out a long British tradition of enumerated rights within the British legal system that governed the American colonies. Some would say it has unique application to the circumstances of the United States.\n\nYet many others believe that the American Bill of Rights has transcended its historical roots. The concept of individual rights can be seen as one of the building blocks in any civil society. And in many times and many places, the Bill of Rights has served as beacon to those living under tyrants.\n\nConsider the post-1989 revolutions that ended Communist control of Eastern Europe. Looking back on these events, Adam Michnik, the Polish journalist and Solidarity leader, posed the question of which revolution has been a greater inspiration for modern Europeans — the French Revolution or the American Revolution. His answer is unequivocal.\n\n"The American Revolution," says Michnik, "appears to e
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The authority of the Constitution was established after it was ratified by the (I believe it had to be 7 of the 13)Thirteen States. What isn't expressly given to the Federal Government is implied to go to the states.  The 3 branches had their own powers that check and balance each other out
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The Constitution was started with the Constitutional Convention on May 25 1787.  September 17th is when the final draft was signed but it was in effect until June 21 1788 when New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratify.
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It was among the earliest state constitutions.  Actually, it was written before the Constitution of the United States (1787).