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 ...

Virginia was the tenth State to ratify the Federal Constitution.† Last week it was the first State to ratify what is likely to become the 20th Amendment to that Constitution. Prodded into speedy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No president is supposed to serve more than two full terms. That rule became part of the US Constitution in 1951, after ...