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“He Let His Fancy Rove Unchecked” How the Ratification of the Constitution in New York Played Out in the Newspapers

After the Constitutional Convention created the new constitution in 1787 it was up to the states to ratify the document so that it could be put into effect. They had decided that once nine states had ratified the document it would become the law of the land. By the time the New York Convention met…