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NEW YORK RATIFIES
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 organ-
ized 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 dele-
gates voted to ratify the United States Constitution on July
26, 1788.
No. 88-43
CONSTITUTION
1787-1791
the the
People
BICENTENNIAL
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Chris Calle
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