Timeline of drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution Timeline of drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution 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, and ended on September 17, 1787, the day the Constitution drafted by the convention's delegates to replace the Articles was adopted and signed. The ratification process for the Constitution began that day, and ended when the final state, Rhode Island, ratified it on May 29, 1790. In
Article 15 of the Constitution of Singapore courts have deferred to the Government as to the necessity for the restrictive legislation. The terms "public health" and "morality" in Article 15(4) have yet to be judicially interpreted. Article 15 of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore is entitled "Freedom of religion" and reads as follows: In "Nappalli Peter Williams v. Institute of Technical Education" (1999), the Court of Appeal affirmed that the Constitution generally adopts what is known as accommodative secularism by "removing restrictions to one's choice of religious belief". Article 15(1) is "in pari materia" with Article 11(1) of the Constitution of Malaysia, from which it