the united states became a state under an effective constitution on march 4, 1789.
the united states became a state under an effective constitution on march 4, 1789.
when did the united states become a state under an effective constitution?
march 4, 1789
article seven of the constitution of the united states describes the process by which the entire document was to become effective. it required that conventions of nine of the thirteen original states ratify the constitution. if fewer than thirteen states ratified the document, it would become effective only among the states ratifying it. new hampshire was the ninth state to ratify, doing so on june 21, 1788, but, as a practical matter, it was decided to delay implementation of the new government until new york and virginia could be persuaded to ratify. congress intended that new york city should be the first capital, and that george washington, of mount vernon, virginia, should be the first president, and both of those things would have been somewhat awkward if either new york or virginia were not part of the new government. ratification by those states was secured - virginia on june 25 and new york on july 26 - and the government under the constitution began on march 4, 1789.
ratification
under zviad gamsakhurdia, the first democratically elected president of the newly independent georgia, the nation continued to function under the 1978 constitution of the georgian soviet socialist republic, which was based on the 1977 constitution of the soviet union. the first post-communist parliament amended that document extensively. in february 1992, the georgian national congress (the alternate parliament elected in 1990) formally designated the georgian constitution of 21 february 1921 as the effective constitution of georgia. that declaration received legitimacy from the signatures of jaba ioseliani and tengiz kitovani, at that time two of the three members of the governing military council. in february 1993, eduard shevardnadze called for extensive revisions of the 1921 constitution. characterizing large sections of that document as wholly unacceptable, shevardnadze proposed forming a constitutional commission to draft a new version by december 1993.
constitution of georgia (country)