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January 21, 2011

Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 15

Constitutional Maunderings
Hatched by Dafydd

The victory lap of the Constitution itself. Next stop -- the Bill of Rights!

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Article VII - Ratification

The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names.

Go Washington - President and deputy from Virginia

New Hampshire - John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman

Massachusetts - Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King

Connecticut - Wm Saml Johnson, Roger Sherman

New York - Alexander Hamilton

New Jersey - Wil Livingston, David Brearley, Wm Paterson, Jona. Dayton

Pensylvania - B Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robt Morris, Geo. Clymer, Thos FitzSimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouv Morris

Delaware - Geo. Read, Gunning Bedford jun, John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jaco. Broom

Maryland - James McHenry, Dan of St Tho Jenifer, Danl Carroll

Virginia - John Blair, James Madison Jr.

North Carolina - Wm Blount, Richd Dobbs Spaight, Hu Williamson

South Carolina - J. Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler

Georgia - William Few, Abr Baldwin

Attest: William Jackson, Secretary

It's a big shocking how many names on that roster I don't recognize. I reckon immortality can be pretty anonymous at times!

All verses in the Lizardian Constitutional Collection:

  1. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 1 (Preamble)

  2. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 2 (Congress; House, part I)

  3. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 3 (House, part II)

  4. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 4 (Senate, part I)

  5. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 5 (Senate, part II)

  6. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 6 (General congressional admin stuff)

  7. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 7 (Legislative process and enumerated powers)

  8. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 8 (Limitations)

  9. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 9 (The prez -- who does he think he is?)

  10. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 10 (What would a president do?)

  11. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 11 (Judiciary)

  12. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 12 (States, part I)

  13. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 13 (States, part 2)

  14. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 14 (Amendment; supreme law of the land)

  15. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 15 (Ratification rules and signers)

  16. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 16 (Amendments: Bill of Rights, Amendments 1-4)

  17. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 17 (Bill of Rights -- Courtroom Amendments 5-8)

  18. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 18 (Bill of Last Rights 9 and 10)

  19. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 19 (Amendments: Suing other states, president vs. vice president)

  20. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 20 (Amendments: Abolition of slavery)

  21. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 21 (Amendments: States prohibited from infringing rights)

  22. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 22 (Amendments: Racial voting rights)

  23. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 23 (Amendments: Wilsonian-Progressivism I)

  24. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 24 (Amendments: Wilsonian-Progressivism II)

  25. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 25 (Amendments: Rooseveltian amendments)

  26. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 26 (Amendments: Camelot amendments)

  27. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 27 (Amendments: Panacea amendments)

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, January 21, 2011, at the time of 12:00 AM

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