With the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, ratification of the New START Treaty and passage of the tax bill, he has rolled with the punches and he has emerged from the fray standing tall.
After its ratification he was elected to the inaugural United States Congress, where he was actively involved in drafting and passage of the Bill of Rights as an advocate of individual and state liberties.
To be sure, the launch of ACA has been an utter public relations nightmare for Obama, who valiantly fought for years for its passage through Congress, its Supreme Court ratification, and its re-affirmation in the 2012 election.
Volume IV (1902) and Volumes V and VI (both 1922) lack the fervour of the first three volumes, presenting rather methodical accounts of national and international conventions and the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
The Eighteenth Amendment is the only amendment to have secured ratification and later been repealed.
We urge a swift ratification and implementation of the New Start treaty.
Britain would then withdraw its ratification and Lisbon would be dead.
The ratification process has often been described as a contest between "federalists" who favored ratification and "anti-federalists" who opposed it.
The deal is subject to ratification and to court approval.
