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...

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

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

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...

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

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...