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Originally Posted by smooth
The_Jazz didn't answer my question, and in fact, appeared to me to be pontification.
At no point did I suggest that common persons had any say in the legistlative process, a strawman he "rebutted." It's obvious that ratification of the Bill of Rights would follow the same process as other amendments, but that's not what I asked.
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Originally Posted by smooth
How many people ratified it? (speaking of the Bill of Rights)
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
For the record, the Bill of Rights had to pass through the same requirements as any other amendment(s) to the Constitution. Generally speaking, the States ratified the BoR at the same time as they did the Constitution. The "ratifiers" were the same folks who ratified the Constitution and did NOT include "the people" but rather their elected officials in the various state legistatures.
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Smooth, please reread what was posted. I answered a direct question with a direct answer. How many people ratified it? The members of the legislatures who ratified the Constitution at the same time. If you want actual numbers, I suppose that I could try to find the actual head count from all 13 state legislatures, but to call my answer a "strawman" is a little insulting, especially when it didn't come down on either side of the issue. My answer clarified a particular point of history that you didn't seem to know. How in the world is that pontification?