Name: Article VII of the Constitution | National Constitution Center | Khan Academy
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- [Kim] Hi, this is Kim from Khan Academy,

and today I'm learning more about Article VII

of the U.S. Constitution, which is the provision

The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States,

shall be sufficient for the Establishment

it reminds us that when the Framers finished

drafting the Constitution in Philadelphia in 1787,

At least nine states had to ratify the Constitution

in order to replace the existing government

To learn more about the ratification process,

Mark Graber is the Jacob A. France Professor

of Constitutionalism at the University of Maryland

Michael Rappaport is the Darling Foundation Professor

at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Professor Graber, can you tell us a little bit

about the political context of ratification?

the Framers tried to put a new Constitution

of the Articles of Confederation was the Articles required

that all 13 states consent for any amendment.

so Rhode Island wasn't going to consent to much of anything.

And, in fact, Rhode Island did not even send delegates

to the convention that drafted the Constitution.

that if you had the unanimous rule for ratification,

So instead, they chose nine, it's about 2/3, 3/4,

in part to make sure Rhode Island, one outlier,

- [Michael] So let's remember, there's two stages here

in how the Constitution gets written and ratified.

which was held during the summer of 1787.

And in that convention, it was pretty much in agreement

that the Federal Government needed to be made stronger,

In order for the Constitution to be ratified,

because there was a variety of viewpoints

Under the previous regime of the Articles of Confederation,

the Federal Government had very limited powers,

whatever happened would happen without you,

And as they went through in tough states, as time went on,

each time, they promised, we'll have a Bill of Rights

- [Kim] So was it controversial that the Framers decided

One of the central points of Anti-Federalist

that the existing Constitution said all states,

and therefore only all states could change the Constitution.

Another way in which it departed from the Articles

is the Articles said you needed the state legislatures

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