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Since equality and segregation were mutually inconsistent, though the ratifiers did not understand that, both could not be honored.

The Constitution and amendments were ratified by state legislatures or conventions, and the ratifiers were more than 1,600 in number.

Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution.

For decades, it was thought of as a stuffy ratifier of the legal establishment, its leadership caricatured as a bunch of "country club lawyers."

Reluctant Ratifiers: Virginia Considers the Federal Constitution.

Judge Bork's views of the Constitution remain faithful to the intent of the Framers and ratifiers of the document.

Federal judges, when interpreting the Constitution, frequently use the Federalist Papers as a contemporary account of the intentions of the framers and ratifiers.

Non ratifiers were Russia, Canada, Australia, Columbia, Kazakhstan, Indonesia and China.

In 1798, Congress, which contained several of the ratifiers of the First Amendment at the time, adopted the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Tellingly, none has asserted that the framers and ratifiers intended to create a generalized privacy right in whose name abortion, for example, could be immunized from legal regulation.

There is a vigorous debate among judges and legal scholars about whether or not the intentions of the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution can be meaningfully resurrected.

For decades, the American Bar Association had been thought of as a stuffy ratifier of the legal establishment, and the abortion vote shocked many of the organization's senior members.

Firstly, in becoming the eighth ratifier, the European Union is saying to the EU Member States that they too should ratify and implement, including the optional protocol.

When the drafters and ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment adopted a commitment to equality under the law, they did not think particularly about whether they wanted to bring about integrated schools.

He also noted that a paragraph of the resolution specifically exempts from investigation or prosecution citizens of countries like the United States that are not ratifiers of the court treaty.

The rabble call him lord; And, as the world were now but to begin, Antiquity forgot, custom not known, The ratifiers and props of every word, They cry 'Choose we!

In addition, thousands more have registered as delegates for Provisional World Parliaments organized by WCPA and have declared themselves as personal ratifiers of the Earth Constitution.

Peckham conceded that the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution likely anticipated that the Commerce Clause would mainly authorize Congressional interdiction of state-created barriers to interstate commerce.

The biodiversity treaty is one of two pillars of the summit; the other, a treaty committing its ratifiers to stablize emissions of gases believed to cause global warming, was negotiated earlier this month.

The interpretation of these provisions has been elaborated through decisions by the parties (ratifiers of the Convention) (see the Convention on Biological Diversity Handbook, available free in digital format from the Secretariat).

Lucinda Robb, a researcher at the National Archives, said that Tennessee, along with other states in the South, was an unlikely ratifier of the amendment because the measure enfranchised black women along with white women.

But I should add to that passage that when a judge goes beyond this and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and the ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty.

Searching for the intent of the ratifiers or the people, however, is even more of a wild goose chase - particularly since the Constitution has since been thoroughly transformed as a result of the amendments made after the Civil War.

This 3-year moratorium from the new debt reduction rule will apply for all EU member states with an EDP registered at November 2011, and being a Fiscal Compact ratifier does not change anything in that regard.

It is widely anticipated that the treaty will be ratified by the requisite 50 countries by the end of this year (when the Senate approved the treaty in August 1992, the United States became one of the earliest ratifiers).