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The U.S. Constitution Is Adopted Into Law and Then Ratified by the States
The U.S. Constitution is adopted into law on September 17th by the Federal Constitutional Convention and later ratified by the states on June 21, 1788.
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Maryland’s HB 1322 would end campus “free speech zones” and protect student expression statewide after recent First Amendment missteps at UMD and Towson.