When a convention comes into force, it creates a legal obligation for ratifying nations to apply its provisions.

Instead, the 2,900-member party congress is relegated to the role of ratifying decisions handed down from the party's Central Committee.

Shall our Sentence be itself final, or need ratifying by Appeal to the People?

Point one: procedure for ratifying the Constitution.

It also became the seventh state admitted to the U.S. after ratifying the new Constitution.

The plan successfully started the Reconstruction process of ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment in all states.

The United States Senate, I'm here to tell you, is capable of ratifying anything, genocide, homicide, or suicide.

"Patrick Henry speech before Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1788"

In 1788, Marshall announced his candidacy to be a delegate to the Virginia Ratifying Convention.

In 1788 delegates unanimously selected Pendleton president of the Virginia Ratifying Convention.

Virginia Ratifying Convention held.

But he is wrong to imply that the Government is at fault for not ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Unfortunately, the real impact of ratifying the current arrangements in Iraq is to leave the burden for postwar Iraq squarely on American soldiers and taxpayers.

Liberal Democrats and Reformers also back a strong commitment to ratifying existing instruments such as the European Arrest Warrant.

I agree with other speakers that ratifying conventions is good, action plans are good, but we actually have to see the action to see this worked through.

In 1788 he was a delegate to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, which ratified the United States Constitution.

He was later appointed to the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention to ratify the United States Constitution.

James Madison explained the omission of a vicinage clause in the Virginia Ratifying Convention as follows:

He attended the 1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention and advocated ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

By ratifying the compromise choice of Rene Theodore as prime minister next week, Haiti's Parliament can halt the country's steep slide into catastrophe.

His last hope lies in Prague, where Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, is dragging his feet over ratifying the treaty.

Granting the federal government this much authority was apparently rejected because its potential misuse could later be used to reject the Constitution at State Ratifying Conventions.

Backus served as a delegate from Middleborough to the Massachusetts ratifying convention, which ratified the United States Constitution in 1788.

Agreement Before June Union members will vote on ratifying the contract after the city and Board of Education approve it, Mr. Stigliano said.

Also that year the Committee on Foreign Relations held hearings on ratifying tax treaties with Estonia, Venezuela, Denmark, and other nations.

Or rather, you ratified a very good idea inside me.

It would then have to be ratified by 38 states.

As of 2013, it has been ratified by 15 states.

Of the 48 states at the time, 42 ratified it.

We have until the end of 2002 for Nice to be ratified.

If it is ratified, they can look forward to a lot more of the same.

When 60 countries ratify, which is likely over the next few years, the court will begin work.

The union's members have 10 days to ratify the deal.

The two countries ratified an air services agreement in 2004.

Only 28 of the necessary 36 states ever ratified it.

The president's choice must then be ratified by the Senate.

Those changes can be agreed upon and ratified only with their full support.

Some 25 nations have ratified; others are well on the way.

The court cannot begin trying cases until at least 60 nations have ratified.

Often a decision must be ratified by a human rights commission.

It must still be ratified by a majority of the players.

"A lot of other countries will simply wait until we ratify to take action."

The change is based on the new Council decision, which has only just been ratified.

As we know, though, Congress then did not ratify it.

We only want to be prepared for when it is ratified.

We continue to hope that the agreement will be ratified.

The board ratified the change at a meeting on Friday.

Washington did not get the job until the Constitution was ratified.

As of 12 January 2007 it had been ratified by 167 countries.

As of May 2013, the convention had been ratified by 32 states.