The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. This laconic sentence, in the last and ...

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 ...

Congress passed the ERA, which bans discrimination on the basis of sex, and sent it to the states for ratification in 1972, along with a 10-year deadline. But when that 1982 deadline passed, the ...

On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, allowing the passage of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Virginia was the tenth of fourteen states to ratify the ...

All but three of the delegates signed the document. Now it would be up to the states to ratify -- or reject -- the Constitution. Federalists such as Hamilton supported ratification. But Anti ...

First, it appeared to violate the Constitution’s “appointments clause ... he said USAID’s acting administrator could simply ratify the decision to shutter the headquarters.

The development comes as Tinubu has till today, Thursday, as required by the Nigerian Constitution, to ratify the state of emergency proclamation in Rivers State. Recall that President Tinubu on ...