The Congress of Vienna ratified her accession to Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla, despite Bourbon opposition; but her son's right of succession was overruled (1817), the duchies being secured to her for her lifetime only.
Films such as Now Is Good or the recent rock biopic The Runaways have ratified her as a sophisticated performer, but the seeds of that maturity were sown when she played a 12-year-old rape victim in the overheated Southern drama Hounddog.
She was driven less by passion than by her frustration at Elizabeth's refusal to ratify her right of succession.
However, her relationship with Mr Bennet, so often seen as establishing and ratifying her status as the smartest and most interesting of the daughters, certainly complicates – if not pollutes – her standing as our narrator's ego ideal.
If neither of these stories is as powerfully original as "The Last Life," they nonetheless attest to Ms. Messud's growing range as a writer, and they ratify her authority and poise as a storyteller.
The IPC said Mills, who announced on Monday that she would not compete at Sochi as a result of the IPC's refusal to ratify her equipment, had a "wild tantrum" that saw her "verbally abuse" and "physically harass" one of their officials.
The extraordinary tale of Heather Mills's attempt to ski in next year's Winter Paralympics took another remarkable twist on Thursday when she was accused of calling a Paralympic official a "bitch" and screaming and shouting at the official in the wake of a decision not to ratify her use of a new prosthetic limb.
Back in Pamland, the wish was still congruent with reality; and every ticket for a film of hers, every video rental and every rave review on AM radio, was like another vote to ratify her reality at the expense of his.
Or to put it another way, if Congress ratifies her appointment, Ms Yellen will have to make history in a bigger sense than simply being the first woman to be seen as the most powerful financial player in the world.
To her colleagues, she was the unofficial but undisputed head of the press corps, her status ratified by her signature line at the end of every White House news conference: "Thank you, Mr. President".
She is especially noted for her successful efforts to get the Nineteenth Amendment ratified in her home state of Tennessee, the final state necessary to bring the amendment into force.
