This Day in History: , US Constitution <br />Is Ratified.<br />June 21, 1788.<br />The document creating the <br />U.S. government as it <br />is known today...<br />... was ratified nearly a <br />year after being written.<br />In response to mounting <br />debt and other problems <br />created by the Articles <br />of Confederation.<br />the Second Constitutional Convention <br />was held in Philadelphia over the <br />course of three months in 1787.<br />During these <br />three months, <br />delegates crafted <br />the Constitution.<br />New Hampshire was the <br />ninth and final state to <br />ratify the Constitution.<br />The first ten amendments <br />to the Constitution — known <br />as the Bill of Rights — <br />were ratified in 1791
