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rcise of their sovereign right, which nobody then denied—North Carolina for nine months, Rhode Island for nearly fifteen, after the new government was organized and went into operation. In several of the other states the ratification was effected only by small majorities. The terms in which this action was expressed by the several states and the declarations with which it was accompanied by some of them are worthy of attention. Delaware was the first to act. Her convention met on December 3, 1787, and ratified the Constitution on the 7th. The readiness of this least in population and next to the least in territorial extent of all the states, to accept that instrument, is a very significant fact when we remember the jealous care with which she had guarded against any infringement of her sovereign statehood. Delaware alone had given special instructions to her deputies in the convention not to consent to any sacrifice of the principle of equal representation in Congress. The pr