Answer will be posted tomorrow.
Well, it’s tomorrow 😉😆 so here’s the answer to yesterday’s Daily Quiz Question..
ANSWER to yesterday’s 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸DAILY QUIZ🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
TRUE or FALSE - The Bill of Rights was ratified before George Washington became the First President of the United States.
FALSE. The Bill of Rights was ratified on December 15, 1791 more than 2 years after George Washington was inaugurated as the First President of the United States on April 30, 1789.
The Bill of Rights was drafted in New York City, where the federal government was operating out of Federal Hall in 1789. James Madison, who had drafted much of the original Constitution, took up the task of drafting a bill of rights. Madison largely drew from the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which was primarily written by George Mason in 1776 two months before the Declaration of Independence. Madison also drew from amendments suggested by state ratifying conventions.
In September 1789 the House and Senate accepted a conference report laying out the language of proposed amendments to the Constitution.
Within six months the Bill of Rights were submitted to the states. Virginia’s ratification, on December 15, 1791, made the Bill of Rights part of the Constitution.
Diana Erbio is a freelance writer and author of “Coming to America: A Girl Struggles to Find her Way in a New World”. Read more in her series Statues: The People They Salute visit The Table of Contents and the Facebook Page. (I’ll be adding to the Substack Table of Contents as I transfer the Blog Posts. Please subscribe to this Substack 😊🇺🇸🤓)
Nice little history lesson.