Editing Articles of Confederation (section)

===Final months===
On July 3, 1788, the Congress received [[New Hampshire]]'s all-important ninth ratification of the proposed Constitution, thus, according to its terms, establishing it as the new framework of governance for the ratifying states. The following day delegates considered a bill to admit Kentucky into the Union as a sovereign state. The discussion ended with Congress making the determination that, in light of this development, it would be "unadvisable" to admit Kentucky into the Union, as it could do so "under the Articles of Confederation" only, but not "under the Constitution".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kesavan |first=Vasan |date=December 1, 2002 |title=When Did the Articles of Confederation Cease to Be Law |url=http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr/vol78/iss1/3 |journal=Notre Dame Law Review |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=70–71 |access-date=October 31, 2015 |archive-date=January 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101052616/http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr/vol78/iss1/3/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

By the end of July 1788, 11 of the 13 states had ratified the new Constitution. Congress continued to convene under the Articles with a quorum until October.<ref>{{Cite web |title=America During the Age of Revolution, 1776–1789 |url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/timeline2f.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110315050400/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/timeline2f.html |archive-date=March 15, 2011 |access-date=April 16, 2011 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lanman |first1=Charles |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalann01morrgoog |title=Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States |last2=Morrison |first2=Joseph M. |date=1887 |publisher=[[J.M. Morrison]] |access-date=April 16, 2011}}</ref> On Saturday, September 13, 1788, the Confederation Congress voted the resolve to implement the new Constitution, and on Monday, September 15 published an announcement that the new Constitution had been ratified by the necessary nine states, set the first Wednesday in January 1789 for appointing electors, set the first Wednesday in February 1789 for the presidential electors to meet and vote for a new president, and set the first Wednesday of March 1789 as the day "for commencing proceedings" under the new Constitution.{{Sfnp|Maier|2010|page=429–430}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 13, 1788 |title=By the United States in Congress assembled, September 13, 1788 |url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.2410h |access-date=13 March 2021 |website=Library of Congress |quote=the first Wednesday in March next, be the time, and the present Seat of Congress the place for commencing Proceedings under the said Constitution. |archive-date=September 3, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903075028/http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.2410h |url-status=live }}</ref> On that same September 13, it determined that New York would remain the national capital.{{Sfnp|Maier|2010|page=429–430}}