With no dissent and little notice, the convention ratified the starkly conservative, anti-abortion credo that it had labored over at platform hearings last week.

On June 25, the convention ratified the Constitution by a vote of 89 to 79.

It required that conventions of nine of the thirteen original States ratify the constitution.

He added: "I have said that if the nominee offered me the spot and the convention ratified it, I would be happy to serve.

That convention ratified the constitution's first nine amendments.

Three days later, the convention would ratify the new constitution-without amendments-by a seventy-eight percent majority.

Several political generations have never seen, and so might be enthralled by, a convention that actually chooses rather than merely ratifies a nominee.

What the Commission is therefore proposing is to have these conventions ratified.

The convention drafted and ratified a proposed constitution to allow Oregon to become a state, which the citizens then approved later that year.

They are universally applicable, regardless of whether the relevant conventions have been ratified, the level of development of a country or cultural values.