56 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

SECTION 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation.

United States v Reese et al, 92 U S. 214. United States v. Cruikshank
et al., 92 U S 542 Ex parte Yarbrough, 110 U. S. 651. McPherson v.
Blacker, 146 U. S 1.

RATIFICATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.

The Constitution was adopted by a convention of the States
September 17, 1787, and was subsequently ratified by the
several States, in the following order, viz:

Delaware, December 7, 1787.
Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787.
New Jersey, December 18, 1787.
Georgia, January 2, 1788.
Connecticut, January 9, 1788.
Massachusetts, February 6, 1788.
Maryland, April 28, 1788.
South Carolina, May 23, 1788.
New Hampshire, June 21, 1788.
Virginia, June 26, 1788.
New York, July 26, 1788.
North Carolina, November 21, 1789.
Rhode Island, May 29, 1790.

The State of Vermont, by convention, ratified the Constitu-
tion on the 10th of January, 1791, and was, by an act of Con-
Secretary of State, dated March 30, 1870, to have been ratified by the legis-
latures of twenty-nine of the thirty seven States. The dates of these
ratifications (arranged m the order of their reception at the Department of
State) were: From North Carolina, March 5, 1869; West Virginia, March
3, 1869, Massachusetts, March 9-12, 1869; Wisconsin, March 9, 1869;
Maine, March 12, 1869; Louisiana, March 5, 1869, Michigan, March 8, 1869;
South Carolina, March 16, 1869, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1869. Arkansas,
March 30, 1869; Connecticut, May 19, 1869, Florida, June 15, 1869, Illinois,
March 5, 1869; Indiana, May 13-14, 1869, New York, March 17-April 14,
1869 (and the legislature of the same State passed a lesolution January 5,
1870, to withdraw its consent to it), New Hampshire, July 7, 1869, Nevada,
March 1, 1869, Vermont, October 21, 1869; Virginia, October 8, 1869,
Missouri, January 10, 1870, Mississippi, January 15-17, 1870; Ohio, January
27, 1870, Iowa, February 3, 1870, Kansas, January 18-19, 1870; Minnesota,
February 19, 1870; Rhode Island, January 18, 1870; Nebraska, February
17, 1870; Texas, February 18, 1870. The State of Georgia also ratified the
amendment February 2, 1870