Today in Supreme Court History: September 16, 1787

9/16/1787: The Constitutional Convention finalizes Constitution.

The Constitution

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[Dan Schiavetta]

Socialist Labor Party v. Rhodes, 89 S.Ct. 3 (decided September 16, 1968): Stewart declines to order Ohio Secretary of State to place Socialist Labor Party candidates for federal office on ballot; Party has only 108 members and the relief it originally requested (space for write-ins) had already been granted (a much larger third party was involved in this litigation, and a month later the Court held that Ohio law making it impossible for any third party to get onto ballot violated Equal Protection, 393 U.S. 23)

[apedad]

I thought the final adoption (NOT ratification!), was on 17 Sept. 1787, not the 16th.