On March 22, 1972, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, sending the measure to the states for ratification in order for it to become a part of the U.S. Constitution, the ultimate law ...

NEW-ORLEANS, Thursday, March 21. The State Convention, to-day, after a lively debate, ratified the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States by a vote of 100 Ayes to 7 Nays. Advertisement ...

These negotiations and the ratification of the treaty in January ... according to the National Constitution Center. That same month, the Continental Congress approved the preliminary peace treaty ...

It is expected to sell for much more. The only known privately held official signed ratification copy of the U.S. Constitution will be auctioned on September 28th This revolutionary document is ...

2 Central to this struggle is ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Read the latest as the ERA becomes the 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution: The ERA Solidifies Women’s Rights ...

The landmark Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution series includes four volumes on Rhode Island, a state that boycotted the constitutional convention and was the last to ratify.

This presidential immunity is a judicial creation which rejects the text of the Constitution and disregards one of the principal reasons publicly advanced for its ratification by the states ...