A little more than a year after the delegates met in Philadelphia, the first nine states agreed to ratify the delegates proposal. On March 4, 1789, the U.S. Constitution went into effect as the supreme law of the land.
How did the first Congress resolve the main problem many saw in the Constitution?
-They called a Constitutional Convention
-they proposed a bill of rights to the Convention
-they agreed to limit the number of slaves counted
-the Virginia delegates gave up on their plan