The Eighteenth Amendment is the only amendment to have secured ratification and later been repealed.
"The signing of the Declaration of Independence, the adoption of state constitutions and the later ratification of the First Amendment signaled a major departure from English law and policy concerning free speech and freedom of the press," the court said.
Historical opinion is divided on what sort of role the rebellion played in the formation and later ratification of the United States Constitution, although most scholars agree it played some role, at least temporarily drawing some anti-Federalists to the strong government side.
Our history is replete with examples of emergency presidential action that was taken subject to later Congressional ratification.
The early Supreme Court decision and later Congressional ratification represented a highly visible social settlement in the employment discrimination area.
Weeks after his self-described "shellacking" in the November elections, Obama won lopsided approval of a tax cut compromise with Senate Republicans, and the Senate is expected to deliver his top foreign policy goal later today: ratification of a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia.
In reality, the colonists knew better and there were elaborate procedures of purchase and ratification by crown and parliament, later annulled by force when the evil creatures resisted extermination.
Congressman John R. Lynch later wrote that ratification of those two amendments made Reconstruction a success.
But thanks to the very same amendment process that gave us Prohibition, "We the People" were able to correct this constitutional misstep, repealing the 18th Amendment 15 years later, through the ratification of the 21st Amendment.
After ratification, the copyright remains with interRAI.
