] ... do, in the
name and in behalf of _the people of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts_, assent to and ratify the said Constitution for
the United States of America."
This was accomplished on February 7, 1788.
Maryland followed on the 28th of April, and South Carolina on the 23d of
May, in equivalent expressions, the ratification of the former being
made by "the delegates of _the people of Maryland_," speaking, as they
declared, for ourselves, and in the name and on the behalf of _the
people of this State_; that of the latter, "in convention of _the people
of the State of South Carolina_, by their representatives, ... in the
name and behalf of _the people of this State_."
But South Carolina, like Massachusetts, demanded certain amendments, and
for greater assurance accompanied her ordinance of ratification with the
following distinct assertion of the principle afterward embodied in the
tenth amendment:
"This Convention doth also declare that _no section or
paragraph_ of the said Constitution warrants a construction that
_the States do not retain every power not expressly relinquished
by them_ and vested in the General Government of the Union."
"The delegates of _the people of the State of New Hampshire_," in
convention, on the 21st of June, "in the name and behalf of _the people
of the State of New Hampshire_," declared their approval and adoption of
the Constitution.
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