Sentence examples similar to Propose for ratification from inspiring English sources

It would do violence to proper regard for the framers of the Fifth Amendment to assume that they contemporaneously enacted and continued to enact legislation that was offensive to the guarantees of the double jeopardy clause which they had proposed for ratification.

That measure, the court said, was related to the Legislature's role in the process of amending the U.S. Constitution, whether that takes the form of applying to Congress for the creation of a constitutional convention or petitioning Congress to directly propose an amendment for ratification by the states.

In quantitative terms, the government has issued Parliament approximately two to three hundred proposals annually for ratification in the 1990s, the majority of which have covered more than one new proposed law.

Sixty-seven Senate votes are needed to send a proposed amendment to the states for ratification.

The decision will be made by the 19-member Democratic steering committee, which proposes chairmanships and committee assignments for ratification by the entire Democratic caucus.

The Congressional Joint Resolution proposing the amendment was submitted to the states for ratification on June 16 , 1866

Poland proposed to finish all negotiations by 2001, leaving enough time for ratification.

None of the various proposals for a united Europe are now up for ratification.

Congress reduced Madison's proposed twenty amendments to twelve, and these were submitted to the states for ratification on September 25 , 1789

These are among the suggestions that thousands of Americans have sent to their representatives in Congress as proposed amendments to the Constitution since the document was sent to the states for ratification in 1787.

The General Assembly also voted to send two proposed constitutional amendments that strengthened the legislative branch relative to the executive to voters for ratification.