Article VII (7)

Quite the short amendment...yet possibly the most important in a way??? Likeee, without it, the Constitution wouldn't even be valid...

Essentially, Article VII…

Established the conditions in order for the 13 states to ratify the Constitution. **(9/13 states)**

The vote was very…

close.

Brief main arguments for the Constitution at the time:

1. The AOC obviously wasn’t working; if they kept operating under it, they would eventually turn into similarly like the constantly clashing Euro-powers
2. Under AOC, the fed. gov’t had no power to tax or enforce treaties.

a. States were setting tariffs on out-of-state goods

b. they had no united front to present to the other nations and needed a single voice to present themselves as a valid country.

If the framers didn’t promise to the antifederalists to add the Bill of Rights…

The Constitution may have never gotten ratified.