 The remaining four states including Virginia, the largest, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island ratified by 1790, following guarantees that the Constitution would be amended with a Bill of Rights.The stamp depicts the Old Court House in Williamsburg, Virginia, with two riders about to spread the news of Virginia's ratification of the Constitution.Ratification of the Constitution by Virginia was celebrated on June 25, 1988, at Williamsburg, Virginia, on its 200th anniversary.