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| The signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787. It was ratified a little under a year later in June 1788. |
The U.S. Constitution is ratified by nine out of 13 states, officially establishing a new framework of government. The document, hammered out over about four months by delegates at the Constitutional Convention and primarily written by James Madison, established the three branches of American government and a bicameral legislature. It officially went into effect on March 4, 1789, with the Bill of Rights added and ratified on December 15, 1791.
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