ratification

Examples of ratification in the following topics:

• Article VII

  • Article Seven of the United States Constitution provides how many state ratifications were necessary in order for the Constitution to take effect and how a state could ratify it.
  • The ratification of the conventions of nine states, shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the states so ratifying the same.

• Article V

  • Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution may be altered; altering the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments and subsequent ratification.
  • The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

• Ratification of the Constitution

  • On September 26, 1789, Congress sent a list of twelve amendments to the states for ratification.

• The First Political Parties: Federalists and Anti-Federalists

  • The winning supporters of ratification of the Constitution were called Federalists, the opponents were called Anti-Federalists.
  • The winning supporters of ratification of the Constitution were called Federalists and the opponents were called Anti-Federalists.
  • During the ratification process the Anti-Federalists presented a significant opposition in all but three states.
  • Federalists during the ratification period had been unified around the Constitution and support for its form of government.

• Federalists and Antifederalists

  • The Constitution required ratification by nine states in order to come into effect.
  • The fight for ratification was long and difficult.
  • Those who favored ratification were known as Federalists,while those who opposed it were considered Anti- Federalists.The Federalists attacked the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

• The Supremacy Clause

  • The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 essays advocating the ratification of the Constitution.

• Formal Methods of Amending the Constitution

  • Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution that have been ratified, Congress has specified the method of ratification through state conventions for only one: the 21st Amendment, which became part of the Constitution in 1933.
  • New Mexico state law provides that the members of its legislature be the delegates at such a state ratification convention.
  • In several cases, the ratification process took over a century.

• The 13th Amendment

  • Abraham Lincoln was one of the leading figures behind the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

• The 18th Amendment

  • After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

• The 22nd Amendment

  • Since the amendment's ratification, Dwight D.