He also played a dominant role in Connecticut's 1788 ratification convention, when he emphasized that judicial review guaranteed federal sovereignty.

He continues by referencing the debates of the colonies' ratification conventions.

As a delegate to Virginia's ratification convention, he opposed ratification without amendment.

During the ratification conventions, Coke was mentioned, but not in debates over the striking down of unconstitutional statutes.

Significant too, was the state-by-state adoption of special election rules enabling ratification conventions to represent the people in an especially democratic manner.

The ratification conventions would arise directly from the people voting, and not by the forms of any existing State constitutions.

Bedford was a delegate to Delaware's ratification convention in 1787.

State legislatures set the election rules for ratification conventions, and the people "expressly" chose representatives to consider and decide about the Constitution.

In ratification conventions, the anti-slavery delegates sometimes began as anti-ratification votes.

New Mexico provides, by state law, that the members of its legislature be the delegates at such a state ratification convention.