South Carolina Ratification

Significant events and individuals in South Carolina Politics

• South Carolina Chronology
• Officeholders of the State of South Carolina
• Biographical Gazetteer

State Ratifying Convention Meeting Places (see all)

• Charleston in The Exchange (City Hall)

Significant Speeches/Documents in Favor of Ratification

• Federal Centinel, Charleston, South Carolina Weekly Chronicle, 9 October 1787
• Civis: To the People of South Carolina, Charleston, Columbian Herald, 4 February 1788
• Edward Rutledge, Speech in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 16 January 1788
• Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Speech in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 17 January 1788
• Robert Barnwell, Speech in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 17 January 1788
• Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Speech in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 18 January 1788
• Charles Pinckney, Speech in Ratification Convention, 14 May 1788
• Charles Pinckney, Speech in Ratification Convention, 20 May 1788

Significant Speeches/Documents Opposing Ratification

• On the New Constitution, Charleston, State Gazette of South Carolina, 28 January 1788
• Rawlins Lowndes, Speech in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 16 January 1788
• Rawlins Lowndes, Speech in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 17 January 1788
• Rawlins Lowndes, Speech in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 18 January 1788
• James Lincoln, Speech in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 18 January 1788
• Patrick Dollard, Speech in the Ratification Convention, 20 May 1788

Recommended Amendments

• South Carolina Amendments, 23 May 1788

Significant Outcomes

• Map of Vote