> That's... weird. I mean, I couldn't really imagine one of the 13 colonies not signing the declaration or constitution. The US Constitution went into effect o

> That's... weird. I mean, I couldn't really imagine one of the 13 colonies not signing the declaration or constitution. The US Constitution went into effect on ratification of 9 of 13 states. Virginia and New York were numbers 10 and 11, but ratified it before a government under the new constitution was elected. North Carolina waited about a year later to ratify it, and Rhode Island even several months after that (it ratified it only after the United States threatened to embargo them), and consequently were not part of the first government under the new constitution.