A report on Articles of Confederation, Constitution of the United States and Admission to the Union

Page one of the officially engrossed copy of the Constitution signed by delegates. A print run of 500 copies of the final version preceded this copy.

The order in which the original 13 states ratified the constitution, then the order in which the others were admitted to the union.

1977 13-cent U.S. Postage stamp commemorating the Articles of Confederation bicentennial; the draft was completed on November 15, 1777

Signing of the Constitution, September 17, 1787 (1940 by Howard Chandler Christy)

States that were never part of an organized U.S. territory.

The Act of the Maryland legislature to ratify the Articles of Confederation, February 2, 1781

Dates the 13 states ratified the Constitution

Closing endorsement section of the United States Constitution

United States Bill of Rights
Currently housed in the National Archives.

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Admission to the Union is provided by the Admissions Clause of the United States Constitution in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, which authorizes the United States Congress to admit new states into the Union beyond the thirteen states that already existed when the Constitution came into effect.

- Admission to the Union

It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution.

- Constitution of the United States

On March 4, 1789, the government under the Articles was replaced with the federal government under the Constitution.

- Articles of Confederation

Between 1781 and 1789, the United States was governed by a unicameral Congress, the Congress of the Confederation, which operated under authority granted to it by the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution.

- Admission to the Union

The Land Ordinance of 1785 and Northwest Ordinance created territorial government, set up protocols for the admission of new states and the division of land into useful units, and set aside land in each township for public use.

- Articles of Confederation

In addition, it provides for such matters as admitting new states and border changes between the states.

- Constitution of the United States

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Northwest Ordinance

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Organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States.

Map of the states and territories of the United States as it was on August 7, 1789, when the Northwest Territory was organized

Considered one of the most important legislative acts of the Confederation Congress, it established the precedent by which the federal government would be sovereign and expand westward with the admission of new states, rather than with the expansion of existing states and their established sovereignty under the Articles of Confederation.

The natural rights provisions of the ordinance foreshadowed the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.