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Federalist No. 23, titled " The Necessity of a Government as Energetic as the One Proposed to the Preservation of the Union ", is a political essay written by Alexander Hamilton and the twenty-third of The Federalist Papers. It was first published in New York newspapers on December 18, 1787, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all ...
December 8 – Mission La Purisima Concepcion is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 11th mission in the California mission chain. December 12 – Pennsylvania becomes the second U.S. state (see History of Pennsylvania). December 18 – New Jersey becomes the third U.S. state (see History of New Jersey).
Delaware – December 7, 1787 30 0 100% 2 Pennsylvania – December 12, 1787 46 23 67% 3 New Jersey – December 18, 1787 38 0 100% 4 Georgia – January 2, 1788 26 0 100% 5 Connecticut – January 9, 1788 128 40 76% 6 Massachusetts – February 6, 1788 187 168 53% 7 Maryland – April 28, 1788 63 11 85% 8 South Carolina – May 23, 1788
Pennsylvania ratified on December 12, 1787, by a vote of 46 to 23 (66.67%). New Jersey ratified on December 19, 1787, and Georgia on January 2, 1788, both unanimously. The requirement of ratification by nine states, set by Article Seven of the Constitution , was met when New Hampshire voted to ratify, on June 21, 1788.
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. [1] Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation, [2] the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York, was to create a new ...
Federalist No. 70, titled " The Executive Department Further Considered ", is an essay written by Alexander Hamilton arguing for a single, robust executive provided for in the United States Constitution. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] It was originally published on March 15, 1788, in The New York Packet under the pseudonym Publius as part of The ...
t. e. The drafting of the Constitution of the United States began on May 25, 1787, when the Constitutional Convention met for the first time with a quorum at the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to revise the Articles of Confederation. It ended on September 17, 1787, the day the Frame of Government ...
On December 18, 1787, New Jersey became the third state to ratify the Constitution. On November 20, 1789, New Jersey became the first state in the nation to ratify the Bill of Rights. New Jersey played a principal role in creating the structure of the new United States government.