New York Ratifies

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Stock #: 235579
Type: Postcard
Era: Continental Chrome
Publisher: Maximum Card Collection
Postmark: 1988 Jul-26
PM City: Albany
PM State: NY
Stamp: 25c
Size: 4" x 5.75" (10.25 x 15 cm)

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First Day of Issue: July 26, 1988; First Issue Location: Albany, New York. In the state of New York, the Anti-Federalists had done a good job of organizing and, but for the timing of their Convention, they might have won the vote and kept New York out of the new United States. Articles appeared in the local newspapers against, as well as for, the Constitution, with the opinions and viewpoints of such spokesmen as "{Cato," "Brutus," "Sidney," and "A Republican" regularly appearing in print. A committee of Anti-Federalists organized in Albany to help manage the elections of delegates to New York's Constitutional convention. The committee was successful, and as the Convention convened in Poughkeepsie in the summer of 1788, the vast majority of delegates were opposed to ratification. But then the news arrived that New Hampshire and Virginia had ratified, and the convention realized that a failure to ratify would leave New York standing alone. Thus, New York delegates voted to ratify the United States Constitution on July 26, 1788

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