Examples of ratify in the following topics:
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- In order for all states to ratify, a compromise over a bill of rights had to be made.
- Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution on December 7, 1787.
- On August 2, 1788, North Carolina refused to ratify the Constitution without amendments, but relented and ratified it a year later.
- Vermont became the last state to ratify the Constitution on January 10, 1791.
- Here is a summary of the ten amendments ratified on that day:
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- 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.
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- The Federalist Papers were written between 1788-9 and encouraged people to ask their representatives to ratify the Constitution.
- During 1788 and 1789, there were 85 essays published in several New York State newspapers, designed to convince New York and Virginia voters to ratify the Constitution.
- On December 7, 1787, Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution.
- Pennsylvania followed on December 12, and New Jersey ratified on December 18, also in a unanimous vote.
- On August 2, 1788, North Carolina refused to ratify the Constitution without amendments, but it relented and ratified it a year later.
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- To date, all amendments, whether ratified or not, have been proposed by a two-thirds vote in each house of Congress.
- It was ratified by conventions in 11 states.
- It can be proposed by Congress and ratified by the states.
- The first 10, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously by 1791.
- The next 17 were ratified separately over the next two centuries.
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- The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964.
- Ratification of the amendment took only slightly more than a year, however, as it was rapidly ratified by state legislatures across the country from August 1962 to January 1964.
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- Alternatively, an amendment can be ratified by three-fourths of specially convoked state convention.
- On December 5, 1933, these so-called "wets" asked for specially called state conventions and ratified repeal.
- Thus, Article V of the US Constitution, ratified in 1788, prohibited any constitutional amendments before 1808 which would affect the foreign slave trade, the tax on slave trade, or the direct taxation on provisions of the constitution.
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- After being officially proposed, a constitutional amendment must then be ratified either by the legislatures of at least three-fourths of the states, or by conventions in the same proportion of states.
- 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.
- Although a proposed amendment is effective after three-fourths of the states ratify it, states have, in many instances, ratified an amendment that has already become law, often for symbolic reasons.
- The states unanimously ratified the Bill of Rights; the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery; the Fourteenth Amendment, providing for equal protection and due process; the Fifteenth Amendment, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting; and the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women a federal constitutional right to vote.
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- The Constitution was to be ratified by special ratifying conventions, not by state legislature.
- Interested in retaining power, states were resistant to ratifying a new, stronger central government.
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- 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.
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- This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.