{"id":160,"date":"2026-09-29T14:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:29:01","slug":"framing-constitutions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/framing-constitutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Framing Constitutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ypungml0K_8?si=J9izT_WYmwAwRa99\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Links to Revolutionary era state constitutions (via Avalon Project)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/nh09.asp\">Constitution of New Hampshire \u2013 January 5, 1776<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/sc01.asp\">Constitution of South Carolina \u2013 March 26, 1776<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/virginia.asp\">Virginia Declaration of Rights; June 12, 1776<\/a>&nbsp;(Constitution adopted June 29)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/nj15.asp\">Constitution of New Jersey; July 2, 1776<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/de02.asp\">Constitution of Delaware; September 10, 1776<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/pa08.asp\">Constitution of Pennsylvania \u2013 September 28, 1776<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/ma02.asp\">Constitution of Maryland; November 11, 1776<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/nc07.asp\">Constitution of North Carolina; December 18, 1776<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/ga02.asp\">Constitution of Georgia; February 5, 1777<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/ny01.asp\">Constitution of New York; April 20, 1777<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/vt01.asp\">Constitution of Vermont; July 8, 1777<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/sc02.asp\">Constitution of South Carolina; March 19, 1778<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/press-pubs.uchicago.edu\/founders\/documents\/v1ch1s6.html\">Constitution of Massachusetts; March 2, 1780<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/vt02.asp\">Constitution of Vermont; July 4, 1786<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links to Revolutionary era state constitutions (via Avalon Project) Constitution of New Hampshire \u2013 January 5, 1776 Constitution of South Carolina \u2013 March 26, 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights; June 12, 1776&nbsp;(Constitution adopted June 29) Constitution of New Jersey; July 2, 1776 Constitution of Delaware; September 10, 1776 Constitution of Pennsylvania \u2013 September 28, 1776 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}