Assignment 7: On this Day in History

September 17, 1789. That was the beginning of our country as we know it. It was the fateful day that the United States Constitution was unanimously ratified by all 13 states. The United States of America had to start sometime, after all the Americas was only found by Europe in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, whom we will wrongly celebrate tomorrow (October 12). But that argument is for another time.
Many people argue that the United States was created when the Declaration of Independence was signed, it is what we celebrate on July 4th. But the United States was not recognized as a separate country from England until the Treaty of Paris was signed. Still the United States had a long way to go before it became the United States of America we know and love today.
Before the Constitution there was this thing called the Articles of Confederation, it was truly awful. No one remembers much about it, unless you're a U.S. history teacher, because it did about as much as a participation trophy, it just said that it was there not that it was useful. If the Articles of Confederation hadn't been disband then we wouldn't be the Untied States we are today. Heck we wouldn't be united, let alone still one country.
The Constitution took place of the dreaded Articles of Confederation, luckily. This lead to the America we know today: the President, the Congress that can't ever seem to make a decision, and the rulings of the Supreme Court. That is what who we are as America and it all started with the ratification of a single document on the 17th of September in 1789.