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In 1982, after an undergraduate research paper written by Gregory Watson, then a student at the University of Texas in Austin, became the foundation for a movement to curtail political corruption by ratifying the amendment, efforts picked up steam.
The approval of 16 legislatures was needed to ratify the amendments.
The resolution will only become operative after January 1 , 2017 and if at least 30 States Parties ratify the amendments.
That law specifies that the Federation Council must give the regional legislatures one full year to ratify the amendments and must consider their ratifications at its first session following the expiration of that one-year period.
Three days later Nebraska became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the amendment, providing the two-thirds majority of states required to amend the U.S. Constitution.
South Carolina ratified the Amendment in 1797; New Jersey and Pennsylvania did not ratify the Amendment.
What states currently have legislation to ratify the Amendment?
Congress extended the deadline by three years, but no new states ratified the amendment.
Thirty-five states ratified the amendment, three short of the necessary 38.
The deadline to ratify the amendment ended long ago — in 1982 to be exact.
Utah, the only state that refused to ratify the amendment, remains a particular hotbed of prelapsarian sentiment.
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