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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The First Amendment, for instance, states that “Congress shall make ... far beyond the expectations of those who framed and ratified the Constitution. Because the Tenth Amendment is a textual ...

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 ...