This is the first time Inauguration Day in the United States occurs on that date, on which it has occurred ever since ; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the 20th amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

All subsequent inaugurations were held on March 4th up until 1933 when the ratification of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution changed the inaugural date to January 20th.

20th century historian, Herbert Storing, identifies Clinton as " Cato ", the pseudonymous author of the Anti-Federalist essays which appeared in New York newspapers during the ratification debates.

This came into force in March 2004 with the deposit with UNESCO of the 20th instrument of ratification or accession.

Upon ratification, it became the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 6, 1865.

The number of ratification for the entry-into force of the Ban Amendment is under debate: Amendments to the convention enter into force after ratification of " three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them " 17. 5 ; so far, the Parties of the Basel Convention could not yet agree whether this would be three fourth of the Parties that were Party to the Basel Convention when the Ban was adopted, or three fourth of the current Parties of the ConventionReport of COP 9 of the Basel Convention.

It freed the remaining 1, 000 or so Delaware slaves with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution in December 1865.

On September 24, 1789, the House of Representatives voted to recommend the First Amendment of the newly drafted Constitution to the states for ratification.

Slavery everywhere in the United States was outlawed by the post-war ( 1865 ) ratification of the 13th Amendment.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification.

* 1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.

* 1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.

Finally, ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 made possible modern income taxes, by placing the income tax firmly in the class of indirect excises where it always belonged, and thus needing no apportionment.

Prohibition was instituted with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 16, 1919, which prohibited the "... manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States ..." Congress passed the " Volstead Act " on October 28, 1919, to enforce the law, but most large cities were uninterested in enforcing the legislation, leaving an understaffed federal service to go after bootleggers.

After the ratification of the Boland Amendment, the secret supply network directed by Lt. Col. North became active.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution that have been ratified, Congress has specified the state conventions ratification method for only one: the 21st Amendment, which became part of the Constitution in 1933.

The validity of a ratification that a state first grants and then later purports to rescind, and of the subsequent ratification of an amendment which that state previously rejected and then later assented to, was addressed by Congress in 1868 when Secretary of State William H. Seward issued a proclamation that what we know today as the Fourteenth Amendment was properly ratified and a part of the Constitution.

In 1978, Congress extended the previously-agreed-upon seven-year limit on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by more than three years from a March 22, 1979, original deadline to a June 30, 1982, revised deadline.

To provide such guarantees, the First Amendment ( along with the rest of the Bill of Rights ) was submitted to the states for ratification on September 25, 1789, and adopted on December 15, 1791.

Consequently, very few changes were made in the first two centuries after the ratification of the First Amendment.

The Ninth Amendment became part of the Constitution on December 15, 1791 upon ratification by three-fourths of the states.

The Amendment was unique in setting a time delay before it would take effect following ratification, and in setting a time limit for its ratification by the states.

The amendment was repealed in 1933 by ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, the only instance in United States history of repeal of a constitutional amendment.

Many state legislatures had already enacted statewide prohibition prior to the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment.

The ratification of the Amendment was completed on January 16, 1919, when Nebraska became the thirty-sixth of the forty-eight states then in the Union to ratify it.

Page 1 of joint resolution submitting the Twentieth Amendment for ratification ( source: National Archives and Records Administration | National Archives )

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.

The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

Discussions continue with Croatia on several small disputed sections of the boundary related to maritime access that hinder final ratification of the 1999 border agreement.

A list of parties to the Convention, and their ratification status, can be found on the Basel Secretariat's web page.

In his transmittal, he states: " I am transmitting herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons, and on their Destruction, opened for signature at Washington, London and Moscow on April 10, 1972.

The Nagoya Protocol on Access & Benefit Sharing ( ABS ) was adopted on 29 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan and will enter into force 90 days after the fiftieth instrument of ratification.

It entered into force after the 10th ratification by a signatory country, on 1 July 1975.

When they rejected ratification of the Maastricht Treaty on 2 June 1992, they put the EC's plans for the European Union on hold.

* 2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.

The head of state also signs international treaties on behalf of the state, or has them signed in his / her name by ministers ( government members or diplomats ); subsequent ratification, when necessary, usually rests with the legislature.

Since the original ratification of H. 263 in March 1996 ( approving a document that was produced in November 1995 ), there have been two subsequent additions which improved on the original codec by additional optional annexes ( extensions ).

Following the ratification of the Constitution of Iraq on 15 October 2005, a general election was held on 15 December to elect the permanent 275-member Iraqi Council of Representatives.

Prior to the final ratification, enterprises were already migrating to 802. 11n networks based on the Wi-Fi Alliance's certification of products conforming to a 2007 draft of the 802. 11n proposal.

Under some conventions – e. g. the European Convention on Human Rights – individuals or states are permitted, subject to certain conditions, to take individual cases to the enforcement mechanisms ; under most, however ( e. g. the UN conventions ), individual access is contingent on the acceptance of that right by the relevant state party, either by a declaration at the time of ratification or accession, or through ratification of or accession to an optional protocol to the convention.