Congress the Senate through its ratifying power and the House through its appropriating power shall reject agreements whose long-range impact on the American family is ominous or unclear.
As Reinhardt writes in his law-review article, the Great Writ "has been transformed over the past two decades from a vital guarantor of liberty into an instrument for ratifying the power of state courts to disregard the protections of the Constitution".
Spurred by these objections, a handful of powerful state legislators — among them the State Senators Charles Copeland and Harris McDowell III — stepped in last December and managed to force a deadlock among four state agencies that were set to ratify the power purchase agreement between Bluewater and Delmarva.
The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) cannot start to intervene in the markets, however, until its terms of reference have been adjusted and its new powers ratified by eurozone parliaments, which are in recess.
Unlike most rulers of rightist authoritarian regimes, Franco provided for the continuity of his government after his death through an official referendum in 1947 that made the Spanish state a monarchy and ratified Franco's powers as a sort of regent for life.
With that power firmly ratified, the E.P.A. can now move ahead with the second round of clean car standards proposed last year and a final rule on power plants.
Security workers at the Indian Point nuclear power plant ratified a new five-year contract with Entergy Nuclear Northeast yesterday, a company spokesman said.
In our study of middle-income countries, we identify a third factor that was crucial to executive backsliding: large legislative majorities that abandoned oversight and ratified the concentration of power in the hands of the president or prime minister.
Prior to the 1997 legislative changes, a law was ratified in 1996, giving power to the provincial governments to develop natural resources.
The 25th Amendment, setting procedures for transfer of presidential powers, was ratified in 1967.
The treaty represented a significant commitment on the part of more than 140 (now 185) signatory powers to control nuclear weapons proliferation; nevertheless, for many years the treaty, which went into effect in 1970, was not ratified by significant nuclear powers (including China and France) and many "near-nuclear" states (including Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Israel, Pakistan, and South Africa).
