I thought that was a real possibility, because Georgia and South Carolina at least could have chosen an alliance with Spain and remained sovereign nations.
“I thought that was a real possibility, because Georgia and South Carolina at least could have chosen an alliance with Spain and remained sovereign nations.”
When the proposed U.S. Constitution was sent to the states for ratification, the document’s founders had already agreed only nine states were necessary to establish a new union. The previous union - the one styled “perpetual” - was defunct.
So yes, ratification by Georgia and South Carolina was not necessary.
Still, all thirteen states agreed to include slavery into the United States Constitution; not necessarily because all liked slavery, but because they all considered it to be in their own economic and political best self interest.