During the ratification debates, the Constitution’s advocates ... of presidential electors in the ratifying states by January 1789, the first presidential vote by the electors in February ...

On September 28, Congress sent the Constitution to the states to be ratified by popular conventions. See Article VII (Ratification). Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution ...

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 ...

First introduced in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements for ratification. But its constitutionality is still an open question.

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 ...

So many states feared the expanded powers of the new national government that they insisted on amendments during the Constitution's ratification ... became the first state to grant women the ...

In any event, three-fourths of the state legislatures must ratify the amendment for it to become a permanent part of the Constitution. Calling for a convention to amend the Constitution might ...

Thus far, 38 states have ratified the amendment, meeting the constitutional threshold (three-quarters) for it to be enshrined in the Constitution ... Rights Amendment, first proposed as the ...