Jill Lepore

And New York would be like, we have three things in here.

We will not sign this unless these are out.

Immediately what happened, and there's only 13 states, but they all were like,

We have some requests.

And so it was immediately a political problem of ratification was the possibility of amendment because a bunch of states said, well, like New Hampshire was like, we're not even going to vote because we can't even.

But Massachusetts and Maryland were like, we'll ratify it only if you promise to add these 13 amendments that we're going to officially send to you.

So then all the states were like, oh, you mean we can we can actually add amendments?

And the Federalists kept going out there with like their whole spin on the thing was.

ratify first, amend later.

Like they're like, you picture the cheerleader, ratify first, amend later.

Like this is their chant, ratify first, amend later.

Like we just got to ratify the thing.

But two states say we actually need a second constitutional convention because there've been over 200 amendments proposed in the state ratifying convention.

So finally the federalists win the argument and they promise, they promise, they promise like

Cross my heart and hope to die.

The first thing we'll do, if you guys agree to ratify this, is we will amend it in Congress.

We'll hold a special session.

We'll look at all the amendments that were proposed in the states and we'll we'll send amendments back to the states.

So that's and that's the only reason we even have this Constitution, because eventually the states are like, OK, that seems fine.

Yeah.