This is the 99% invisible breakdown of the Constitution.

I'm Roman Mars.

And I'm Elizabeth Joe.

Today we're discussing articles 6 and 7.

Roman, why don't we go through both articles and let's save the most important part for last.

Okay, because there's a lot of unimportant parts.

Less important.

Go for it.

So why don't we start with Article 7?

That's the ratification clause.

It may be the least important to talk about today, but actually crucially important for the Constitution itself.

Yeah, sure.

We needed these states to vote on it, and the ratification clause says that nine states would be enough to ratify

or make the constitution itself a legitimate document. So that in fact happened. It comes into

effect on June 21st, 1788 when New Hampshire became the ninth state of the 13 to ratify the

constitution. So it kind of has its own clause to make sure

the document is legit. Got it. That makes sense. Okay. Yeah. So that's pretty clear. No real

important Supreme Court cases on it. So let's turn back to Article 6. Okay. Article 6 is a mishmash of a

bunch of different things. So Article 6, Clause 1 talks about debts that the United

States is already obligated for and still has to pay. And so why is that there? Well, you know,

when the Constitution was drafted, the country still had debts and engagements that were

left over from the Revolutionary War.

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