Ratifying a contract means approving it, not necessarily signing it. This occurs after two parties negotiate the details of a contract, but one or both of the parties does not have the authority to sign the contract. The contract then needs to beapproved by people higher up the chain of co...
) The act of sealing or ratifying; the state of being sealed or confirmed; confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit. Obsignatory (a.) Ratifying; confirming by sealing. Obsolesce (v. i.) To become obsolescent. Obsolescence (n.) The state of becoming obsolete. Obsolescent (a.) Going out of ...
It was Col. Mason’s master draft of proposed constitutional amendments that was presented almost word for word by the ratifying conventions of New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, (after being rubber-stamped by the Virginia Convention,) which Mr. Madison took and watered down t...