2. Declaration of Independence
3. In the order of ratification, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Viriginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island. March 4, 1789-government under the Constitution began. The signers were: Delaware
George Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom Maryland
James McHenry, Dan of St. Thomas, Daniel Carroll
John Blair, James Madison, Jr.
William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hu Williamson
J. Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pickney, Charles Pickney, Pierce Butler
William Few, Abraham Baldwin
John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman
Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King
William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman
William Livingston, David Brearly, William Paterson, Jonah Dayton
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Miflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer Thomas Fitzsimmons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, G. Morris
4. Benjamin Franklin was never the president but as you can see he was a signer of the Constitution.
5. 27 amendments
6. It is a law limiting pay raises for Congress. It was ratified May 5, 1992.
7. James Madison‘s Virginia Plan called for a bicameral Congress: the lower house would be “of the people,” elected directly by the people of the United States and representing public opinion, and a more deliberative upper house that would represent the individual states, and would be less susceptible to variations of mass sentiment, would be elected by the lower house.
8. Judicial, Legislative, Executive. The president is part of the executive branch.
9. It didn’t receive enough votes to be ratified in the federal Constitution. Alice Paul was the author.
10. Sign it, not sign it (in which it passes) and veto it.