The ratification process started when the Congress turned the Constitution over to the state legislatures for consideration through specially elected state conventions of the people. Five state conventions voted to approve the Constitution almost immediately (December 1787 to January 1788) and in all of them the vote was unanimous (Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia) or lopsided (Pennsylvania, Connecticut). Clearly, the well-organized Federalists began the contest in strong shape as they rapidly secured five of the nine states needed to make the Constitution law. The Constitution seemed to have easy, broad, and popular support.

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The Declaration of Independence appropriates some of the tenets or ideas derived from the Age of Reason or Revolutionary period.

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Indeed, the Declaration of Independence appropriates some of the tenets or ideas derived from the Age of Reason.

We are referring to the relevant concepts such as liberty, freedom, and rights are included in the declaration such as the right to own property and have a happy life.

The founding fathers received the influence of great philosopher of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire, Baron de Montesquieu, Jean-Jaques Rosseau, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes

The Declaration of Independence was promulgated on July 4, 1776. THe drafters of the Declaration were Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingstone, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams.

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