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On June 14, 1777 THE FIRST FLAG ACT was passed by the Continental Congress - provided for 13 stripes and 13 stars.
The articles of Confederation were approved by Congress on November 15,1777 and went into force after ratification by Maryland on March 1, 1781
THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION- was approved by Congress September 17, 1787. The ratification required 9 states and was completed on June 21, 1788. It went into force on March 4, 1789.
The dates of ratification or admission into the FEDERAL Union were...
Delaware - December 7, 1787
Pennsylvania - December 12, 1787
New Jersey - December 18, 1787
Georgia - January 2, 1788 (readmitted July 15, 1870) Connecticut - January 9, 1788
Massachusetts - February 6, 1788
Maryland - April 28, 1788
South Carolina - May 23, 1788 (readmitted July 9, 1868) New Hampshire - June 21, 1788
Virginia - June 25, 1788 (readmitted January 26, 1870) New York - July 26, 1788
North Carolina - November 21, 1789 (readmitted July 4, 1868) Rhode Island - May 19, 1790
...so NINE STATES...
...plus...
Vermont - March 4, 1791
Kentucky - June 1, 1792
Starting on December 20, 1860, eleven Southern states seceded from the Federal Union (States highlighted in bold are those Southern States officially recognized by the United States as being in rebellion), with two others (Kentucky and Missouri) contesting a secession.
The Federal government did not recognize the legality of secession and refused to remove stars from the US Flag. However, after the cessation of hostilities in 1865, and for a period of time extending to 1870, the United States Government recognized the defacto secession of these eleven states by readmitting them to the Federal Union.
The State of West Virginia's admission to the Union is a particularly interesting study in that this region "seceded from a secession."
The legality of West Virginia was hotly debated at the time (and still is in some circles), even amongst members of Lincoln's administration.
According to the US Constitution, Article IV, Section. 3. Clause 1:
"New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress."
The Articles of Confederation, being in place until March 4, 1789, constituted a perpetual Union, from which the Federal Constitution was simply a little bit "more perfect Union" - into which all states were admitted (where there is a little "confusion" as the word "readmitted" applied to the 11 former Confederate States, saying that to be readmitted implies admission in the former case). So to question is whether there might be a difference between the terms "Ratification" and "Admission" which are sometimes used interchangeable...
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