First State National Historical Park celebrates Delaware’s status as the first state to ratify the Constitution. The nine sites, scattered all over the state, celebrate Delaware’s colonial roots and its importance in the creation of a new nation. Tom and I wanted to get the stamp for First...
Lithuanian lawmakers ratify EU constitution, first country in 25-member bloc to do so
Con - ventions of delegates were elected by the people of the several states to ratify or to reject the Constitution . The excitement was intense . It seemed as if the Constitu - tion would not be adopted . But a way was found out of the difficulty . It was suggested that the ...
On June 10, Wisconsin became one of the first two states (Illinois was the other) to ratify the 19th Amendment for women's suffrage. It was the war movement which added the pressure nationally and statewide. With the involvement of women in all aspects of the war effort, stereotypes became...
Constitution was adopted in 1791, along with the other nine amendments that compose the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment defines fundamental human freedoms for U.S. citizens. It explains that citizens have the right to free speech, free press, the right to worship freely, the right to ...
This promiseconvinced Virginia's delegates to ratify the Constitution on June 21, 1788, being the tenth state to do so. Once theU.S. Constitutionwas ratified, Virginia's state legislature convened again in the fall of 1788. There,Patrick Henryintroduced a resolution t...
Utah became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Con- stitution repealing Prohibition on December 5, 1933. Liquor was once again legal. It wasn't any too soon, either. The country was in the throes of an economic depression, organized crime was corrupting the morals ...
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Fayette County, 1788; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1793-94, 1807-09; U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1795-1801. In 1809, he opposed Henry ...
The Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution in 1787, but the states refused to ratify it without a Bill of Rights explicitly saying what the new government could and could not do. Recently freed from a tyrannical king, the American people wanted a limited government with strong protections for...
The Senate must still approve the treaty before the US can implement its provisions. 2 The FCTC was developed by the World Health Organization and approved by members of the World Health Assembly, including the United States, last year. Countries that ratify it would be required to enact ...