Sentence examples for amendment was ratified from inspiring English sources

Against Johnson's objections, the amendment was ratified.

The 12th amendment was ratified in 1804 in the aftermath of a constitutional crisis.

American women wouldn't even get the vote until 1920, when the 19th amendment was ratified.

His proposal came, and went, some sixteen years before the Twenty-fifth Amendment was ratified.

The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified by the legislatures of Ohio and New Jersey, both of which subsequently passed rescinding resolutions.

The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was ratified by only16 of the necessary 38 states before expiring.

After the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, Paul embarked on a new crusade: to pass an Equal Rights Amendment.

The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870 to guarantee that the emancipated slaves would have the right to vote.

Black Americans were counted as three-fifths of a person until the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868.

My previous favourite was the theory that the income tax is unconstitutional because Ohio was not a state when the 16th Amendment was ratified.

In Georgian times, when the amendment was ratified, the most fearsome weapon anyone, soldier or civilian, could carry was a single-shot musket.