<Tr> <Td> 12 </Td> <Td> November 21, 1789 </Td> <Td> North Carolina </Td> <Td> 194 </Td> <Td> 77 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 13 </Td> <Td> May 29, 1790 </Td> <Td> Rhode Island </Td> <Td> 34 </Td> <Td> 32 </Td> </Tr> <P> Article VII of the proposed constitution stipulated that only nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify for the new government to go into effect for the participating states . By the end of July 1788, eleven states had ratified the Constitution, and soon thereafter, the process of organizing the new government began . On September 13, 1788, the Articles Congress certified that the new Constitution had been ratified by more than enough states for it to go into effect . Congress fixed the city of New York as the temporary seat of the new government and set the dates for the election of representatives and presidential electors . It also set the date for operations to begin under the new government . This occurred on March 4, 1789, when the First Congress convened . </P> <P> The membership of the new Congress was decidedly federalist . In the eleven - state (minus North Carolina and Rhode Island) Senate 20 were Federalist and two Anti-federalist (both from Virginia). The House included 48 Federalists and 11 Anti-federalists (from four states: Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, and Virginia). On April 6 the House and Senate held a joint meeting to count the electoral vote . George Washington was unanimously elected the first president, even receiving the electoral vote of ardent anti-federalist Patrick Henry . John Adams of Massachusetts was elected vice president . Both were sworn into office on April 30, 1789 . The business of setting up the new government was completed . </P>

Who did the final writing of the constitution