Sentence examples for during ratification from inspiring English sources
The clause's potential to concentrate power in the national government — it became known as the "sweeping power" — caused consternation among anti-federalists during ratification.
But the Convention's brief debates, and the national discussion during ratification, strongly support Alexander Hamilton's insistence that what is required is "the abuse or violation of some public trust".
Proper ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment is disputed by tax protesters who argue that the quoted text of the Amendment differed from the text proposed by Congress, or that Ohio was not a State during ratification.
During ratification debates over slavery, the Founders explicitly debated whether the union was a political one only or a moral one as well.
The union's leaders hired the American Arbitration Association to count the votes because of large-scale fraud that took place during the ratification vote on the previous contract.
Some of the arguments involved in its creation are preserved in the Federalist Papers, a series of polemical essays written in a white heat during the ratification process.
Hamilton wrote 51 of the 85 essays collected as The Federalist, which appeared in a variety of outlets during the ratification debates in New York.
Elections during the ratification period produced new governments in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Manitoba, none of which was enthusiastic about the Meech Lake accord.
Founded by proprietor Thomas Penn, the rapidly growing town was the site of repeated uprisings, jailbreaks, and one of the most publicized Anti-Federalist riots during constitutional ratification.
That these tests embody different standards to the disadvantage of United Kingdom citizens was accepted by the Blair government during the ratification process, though now it appears that one of those responsible has departed from that view.
