17881776 Club
New York ratifies the Constitution, 30 to 27
Hamilton, Madison and Jay had spent months making the case in the newspapers; the Poughkeepsie convention barely came around.
By July 1788, New Hampshire had already made the Constitution operational with the ninth ratification, and nine states had signed on. New York was not one of them, and without it the union would have a gap running through the middle of the Atlantic seaboard. On July 26, 1788, the convention at Poughkeepsie ratified by three votes, 30 to 27, making New York the eleventh state and closing that hole in the seaboard…
