Sentence examples for limit for ratification from inspiring English sources

47 resolution, which calls for Congress to officially remove the time limit for ratification of the ERA.

To address the issues inherent in the "three state strategy," Carolyn A. Cook spearheaded a resolution which she authored (HJ Res. 47) urging Congress to remove the time limit for ratification in the final three states needed.

It has been accepted that Congress may, in proposing an amendment, set a reasonable time limit for its ratification.

It would reduce spending next year by more than $100 billion, cap future spending based as a percentage of the economy and require a balanced-budget amendment to be approved by Congress and sent to the states for ratification before the debt limit could be increased.

First introduced in Congress in 1923, the ERA was not passed and sent to the states for ratification until 1972, with an artificial time limit of only seven years for approval by the states.

In the end, however, a solid majority of them, including most members of the House tea party caucus, voted for the bipartisan debt-limit deal that dropped a demand that the amendment first win passage and be sent to the states for ratification.

He called the odds for ratification "favorable".

A majority is required for ratification.

The Senate has made such participation a prerequisite for ratification.

the term for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

It went to the states for ratification in 1909.