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  • Ratification is a principal's legal confirmation of an act of its agent. In international law, ratification is the process by which a state declares its...
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  • State ratifying conventions are one of the two methods established by Article V of the United States Constitution for ratifying proposed constitutional...
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    The Ratification Cases, officially titled as Javellana v. Executive Secretary (G.R. No. L-36142, March 31, 1973; 50 SCRA 30), was a 1973 Supreme Court...
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    number of state ratifications necessary for the Constitution to take effect and prescribes the method through which the states may ratify it. Under the...
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  • Thumbnail for List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States
    amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the...
    68 KB (1,427 words) - 10:46, 26 April 2024
  • number of parties to the treaty. A "party" to a treaty is a state or other entity that ratifies, accedes to, approves, or succeeds to the treaty. In general...
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    Ratification Day in the United States is the anniversary of the congressional proclamation of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris, on January 14, 1784...
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  • The Ratification Act of 1929 (Pub. Res. 70–89, 45 Stat. 1253, enacted 20 February 1929, codified at 48 U.S.C. § 1661) was a joint resolution of the United...
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  • Thumbnail for Virginia Ratifying Convention
    Convention") was a convention of 168 delegates from Virginia who met in 1788 to ratify or reject the United States Constitution, which had been drafted at the...
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    Equal Rights Amendment (category Unratified amendments to the United States Constitution)
    first state to ratify the ERA after the expiration of the deadlines, and Illinois followed in 2018. In 2020, Virginia's General Assembly ratified the ERA...
    140 KB (16,039 words) - 10:52, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
    "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments...
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  • Thumbnail for Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
    particularly by the states of the defeated Confederacy, which were forced to ratify it in order to regain representation in Congress. The amendment, particularly...
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  • Thumbnail for Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
    June 4, 1919. It was then submitted to the states for ratification, achieving the requisite 36 ratifications to secure adoption, and thereby go into...
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    unnecessary and so refused to ratify, while Massachusetts ratified most of the amendments, but failed to send official notice to the Secretary of State that...
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  • the only United Nations member state to have not ratified it after Somalia ratified it in 2015. The UNCRC aims to protect and promote the rights of all...
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  • to the day a particular state ratified the United States Constitution. Ratification Day (United States) Ratification Day (Connecticut) Ratification Day...
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  • Thumbnail for Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
    states to ratify the amendment. On January 29, acting secretary of state Frank L. Polk certified the ratification. By 1922, 46 states had ratified the amendment...
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  • Thumbnail for Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
    local elections. It was proposed by Congress on March 23, 1971, and it was ratified by three-quarters of the states by July 1, 1971. Various public officials...
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  • Thumbnail for List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union
    agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles...
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  • became the first state to ratify the bill, when the Assam Legislative Assembly unanimously approved it. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are...
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