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...

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

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...

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...

legislatures for ratification. That process was completed on February 27, 1951, when the requisite 36 of the 48 states had ratified the amendment (neither...

The Ratification Cases, officially titled as Javellana v. Executive Secretary (G.R. No. L-36142, March 31, 1973; 50 SCRA 30), was a 1973 Supreme Court...

deadlines for the ratification of proposed amendments, but most amendments proposed since 1917 have included a deadline for ratification. Legal scholars...

1919. It was then submitted to the states for ratification, achieving the requisite 36 ratifications to secure adoption, and thereby went into effect...