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vote and ratify
When the vote was held, the convention barely had sufficient votes to ratify, and these likely did not appear until the last minute.
Further, by the time New York came to a vote, ten states had already ratified the Constitution and it had thus already passed — only nine states had to ratify it for the new government to be established among them ; the ratification by Virginia, the tenth state, placed pressure on New York to ratify.
However, when the Senate convened on January 4, 1868, it refused to ratify the removal by a vote of 35-16.
Court of Appeal justices are selected, confirmed, and ratified just like the Supreme Court justices, although only the electorate in the appellate district vote to ratify the justices.
Then direct vote is cast so the people can ratify or not the decanted members that appear in the final step.
* November 21 – North Carolina becomes the 12th state to ratify the Constitution, with a vote of 194 – 77
* 1790 – Rhode Island and Providence Plantations becomes the 13th state to ratify the Constitution, with a vote of 34 – 32 ( May 29 )
Parliament must ratify the nominated Prime Minister with an absolute majority in a vote without other candidates.
University professors were thus hired, fired, and had their pay determined by an elected council of two representatives from every student " nation " which governed the institution, with the most important decisions requiring a majority vote from all the students to ratify.
The Meech Lake Accord failed when the provincial legislatures of Newfoundland and Manitoba adjourned without bringing the issue to a vote ; all 10 provincial legislatures had to ratify the accord for it to become law.
By the time new regime had developed into a single-party system, the Supreme Soviet ( successor to the Congress of Soviets ) had been relegated to the role of a rubber-stamp parliament, meeting just once a year to ratify decisions already made at higher levels, in most cases without even a single dissenting vote.
The last state to ratify was Indiana, where then State Senator Wayne Townsend cast the tie-breaking vote for ratification in January 1977.
In Oregon, once an initiative amendment to its constitution has been placed on the ballot by initiative petition, or once a legislative amendment has been referred to the people by a simple majority vote in the state legislature, a simple majority of favorable votes is enough to ratify it.
Jackson lobbied the U. S. Senate to ratify the treaty in 1836, where it passed by a majority of one vote.
To join, the population of a country must hold plebiscites to vote to ratify the FPE constitution as their own.
The purpose was to ratify the Yushin Constitution of 1972, which ( a ) abolished direct vote for presidential election and replaced it with indirect voting system involving delegates, ( b ) alloted one third of the National Assembly seats to the president, ( c ) gave the president the authority to issue emergency decrees and suspend the Constitution, ( d ) gave the president the authority to appoint all judges and dismiss the National Assembly, and ( e ) repealed a term limit to presidency.
The vote to ratify this amendment was held the following year ; the ratification failed and the category remained.
Beginning on March 2, 1867 the Reconstruction Act, passed over Johnson's veto, required that blacks be allowed to vote and that reconstructed Southern states ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
In December 1999, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma unexpectedly nominated Yushchenko to be the prime minister after the parliament failed by one vote to ratify the previous candidate, Valeriy Pustovoytenko.
Throughout his 15 years as Governor, Ritchie called the legislature into special session several times, including once in 1920 to vote on women's suffrage in Maryland, and again in 1933 to ratify the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1933.
On October 4, 2011, by a vote of 3-2, Princeton Borough Council voted to ratify an agreement whereby Princeton University promises to fund a transit study and provide other benefits in exchange for rezoning for its " Arts and Transit " project.
Throughout negotiations with the Indonesians, the Netherlands maintained it could give up sovereignty over Dutch New Guinea, because the conservative parties in the Dutch parliament, deeply humiliated by Indonesian independence and wanting to maintain a colonial stronghold in the area, would not vote to ratify any such agreement.
Local union members elect their local officers, negotiators, stewards, and delegates to the regional council and national convention ; set policies for their local, including financial decisions ; suggest bargaining demands and vote to approve the union ’ s full list of contract proposals ; vote to ratify or reject contracts and supplemental agreements with the employer ; and decide whether to strike, and when to end a strike, by majority vote.

vote and deal
The merger was approved by HP shareholders only after the narrowest of margins, and allegations of vote buying ( primarily involving an alleged last-second back-room deal with Deutsche Bank ) haunted the new company.
The deal — alleged by onetime Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield to have been made in order to secure the Tigers ' vote in favor of the Senators ' eventual move to Texas — turned Detroit back into contenders, while McLain was a monumental bust, losing an embarrassing league-worst of 22 games.
In a deadlock situation, state legislatures would deal with the matter by holding " one vote at the beginning of the day — then the legislators would continue with their normal affairs ".
In practice, although the final votes on laws of the NPC often return a high affirmative vote, a great deal of legislative activity occurs in determining the content of the legislation to be voted on.
Vecepia agreed to the deal, and they agreed to both vote for Neleh that night.
At the Final 3, after Kathy was the first eliminated from the final Immunity Challenge, Vecepia went back on her deal with Kathy by agreeing to step down and give Neleh immunity, in exchange that Neleh would vote off Kathy.
For instance, upgrades to a plant that would require a great deal of time and effort for all workers might need greater than 50 % vote, as workers would be affected adversely by the decision.
The deal for coalition included places in the cabinet for senior Liberal Democrat officials and a referendum on the alternative vote electoral system.
In January 2008 the Riverhead Town Board with newly elected officers signed a deal to sell the airport for $ 155 million to Riverhead Resorts to build the ski mountain and tear up the airport runway and replace it with a lake overruling a December vote to give the NASCAR track the go ahead.
A white man with great charm and political skill, he enjoyed a great deal of the black vote, which made up almost half of the population, and managed to get himself elected along with a number of black candidates.
They condemned the bill as a ' partition deal ', abstaining from its final vote in the Commons.
However, if the General Assembly determines that the issue is an " important question " by a simple majority vote, then a two-thirds majority is required ; " important questions " are those that deal significantly with maintenance of international peace and security, admission of new members to the United Nations, suspension of the rights and privileges of membership, expulsion of members, operation of the trusteeship system, or budgetary questions.
The formal vote for the deal will take place in September.
The formal vote for the deal will take place in September.
Christy then became the vote everyone wanted on their side, with both the men and women campaigning for her vote, but when she failed to give Rob a straight answer, Rob made a deal with Heidi and Jenna to spare them by voting out Christy.
While MacKay was roundly criticized in some Red Tory circles for permitting a union under his watch, MacKay's efforts to sell the merger to the PC membership were successful: 90. 4 % of the party's elected delegates supported the deal in a vote on December 6, 2003.
( On temporal matters — those that deal with finances, property, etc .— a motion is usually made at the start of a congregational meeting to allow all who are present, rather than just members, the right to vote.
In any case, despite his resignations, the intergovernmental boundary deal was approved by a Dáil vote of 71 – 20 on 10 December 1925, and MacNeill is listed as voting with the majority in favour.
In 1979, he abstained from a crucial vote in the House of Commons which brought down the Labour government, citing the way that the government had failed to help the nationalist population and tried to form a deal with the Ulster Unionist Party.
* In August, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper brought the new deal to Parliament for discussion and a possible confidence vote in which if the House of Commons would vote in majority against, it would have automatically forced a general election and annulled the deal.

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