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...

the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite...

the Virginia ratifying convention and their vote on ratification. A total of 170 delegates were elected. Of these, 168 voted on ratification: 89 for, 79...

of Article VII, constitutional ratification conventions were held in each of the thirteen states, with the ratification of nine states required for the...

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...

the state legislatures for ratification, as provided by Article V of the U.S. Constitution. Congress included a ratification deadline of March 22, 1979...

proposed by the Congress.… Ratification of a proposed amendment has been done by state conventions only once—the 1933 ratification process of the 21st Amendment...

in both Virginia and New York were able to obtain ratification in convention by linking ratification to recommended amendments. A committee of the Virginia...

deadlines for the ratification of proposed amendments, but most amendments proposed since 1917 have included a deadline for ratification. Legal scholars...

This was the first amendment to impose a deadline date for ratification. If ratification did not occur before the deadline date, the amendment would...

legislatures for ratification. That process was completed on February 27, 1951, when the requisite 36 of the 48 states had ratified the amendment (neither...

Federalist Papers, in support of ratification. Before year's end, three state legislatures voted in favor of ratification. Delaware was first, voting unanimously...

of ratification by New Jersey and Ohio were illegitimate, then the amendment had become part of the Constitution on July 9, 1868, with ratification by...

states for ratification on September 25, 1789, along with 11 other proposed amendments (Articles I–XII). The last ten Articles were ratified in 1791 to...

1919. It was then submitted to the states for ratification, achieving the requisite 36 ratifications to secure adoption, and thereby go into effect,...

particular state ratified the United States Constitution. Ratification Day (United States) Ratification Day (Connecticut) Ratification Day (Massachusetts)...

Faith Ratification Act 1560, the Confession remains part of Scots law. González 1984, p. 83 Gray 1939, p. 140 Confession of Faith Ratification Act 1560...

adopted and signed. The ratification process for the Constitution began that day, and ended when the final state, Rhode Island, ratified it on May 29, 1790...

Imperatives for Ratification "America's Defense Chief, Senior Military Advisor and Top Diplomat Call for 'Law of the Sea' Ratification". RatifyTheTreatyNow...

advocating directly with our government on behalf of ratification." Opposition to ratification comes from some religious groups. These, along with many...

other entity that ratifies, accedes to, approves, or succeeds to the treaty. In general, multilateral treaties are open to ratification by any state. Some...

to the states for ratification on September 25, 1789. By the time the Bill of Rights was submitted to the states for ratification, opinions had shifted...

and sent it to the states for ratification. After a bitter struggle that included attempted rescissions of ratification by two states, the Fourteenth...

ratification refers to the last step of ratification, which might require a separate signature of the head of state on the instrument of ratification...

resolutions of ratification submitted by the Committee on Foreign Relations; if approved, the United States exchanges the instruments of ratification with the...

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...

The treaty came into effect on April 11, 1899, when the documents of ratification were exchanged. It was the first treaty negotiated between the two governments...

1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. (A separate table is included below showing AoC ratification dates.) These...

which would hold a ratification convention. The Federalist Papers, were published in newspapers while the states were debating ratification, which provided...

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...