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

Upon the ratification of its new Constitution in 1978, Spain created a system of regional autonomy, known as the " state of the autonomies ".

Upon ratification in 1913, the Amendment effectively made the Pollock decision moot, removing any requirement that taxes on incomes derived from property be apportioned by population.

Upon approval of a resolution offered by U. S. Senator Philip Reed of Maryland, during the 2nd Session of the 11th Congress, TONA was submitted to the state legislatures for ratification.

Upon its ratification, an interim National Assembly composed of the President and Vice President of the Philippines, those who served as President of the 1971 Constitutional Convention, the Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and those Delegates to the 1971 Constitutional Convention, was established and functioned as the Legislature.

Upon entry into force, some of these conventions were closed for ratification and becoming a party to this convention automatically resulted in denunciation of the older ones.

Upon ratification of the amendment, the famous evangelist Billy Sunday said that " The slums will soon be only a memory.

Upon returning to the United States, he became a researcher and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused on individual differences in learning, especially the influences of culture, development, and genetics on intelligence and learning.

Upon reaching Salzburg, however, they found that he was not available and, disillusioned, returned to the United States after spending only 15 days of their planned three years in Europe.

Upon completion of his Presidential term, his commission was reactivated by Congress and Eisenhower again was commissioned a five-star general in the United States Army.

Upon his return to the United States, Bellamy decided to abandon the daily grind of journalism in favor of literary work, which put fewer demands upon his time and his health.

Upon graduation, Giuliani clerked for Judge Lloyd Francis MacMahon, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ( 9 / 11 Commission ), chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, was formed in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attacks, including preparedness for, and the immediate response to, the attacks.

Upon returning to the United States, however, he left the LDS Church, influenced in part by Mormon feminist Sonia Johnson.

Upon independence the United States had to protect its own merchant vessels.

Upon attaining state power these Fronts were often transformed into nominal ( and usually electoral ) " National " or " Fatherland " Fronts in which non-communist parties and organizations were given token representation ( a practice known as Blockpartei ), the most popular examples of these being the National Front of East Germany ( as a historical example ) and the United Front of the People's Republic of China ( as a modern-day example ).

Based on the success of The Man with No Name trilogy, Leone was invited to the United States in 1967 to direct Once Upon a Time in the West ( C ' Era una Volta il West ) for Paramount Pictures.

Upon graduating, Smith worked for the New Orleans Item, with United Press in London, and with The New York Times.

" Upon the group's return to the United Kingdom, Blur ( Albarn in particular ) were upset by the success rival group Suede had achieved while they were gone.

Upon boarding United 175, Shehhi and 4 other hijackers waited 30 minutes into the flight to make their attack, which then allowed Shehhi to take over control as pilot, and at 9: 03 a. m., 17 minutes after Mohamed Atta crashed American 11 into the North Tower, 23-year-old Shehhi crashed the Boeing 767 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

Upon seeing Iguazu, the United States ' First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt reportedly exclaimed " Poor Niagara!

Upon hearing of this atrocity, the president of the United States, who is running for re-election, feels compelled to take drastic measures against drug trafficking ; his challenger, J. Robert Fowler, has rallied the public behind the administration's failures in the War on Drugs.

Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

Upon returning home, both his politics and rhetoric became markedly more radical ; it was around this time that Mobutu began criticizing Belgium and the United States ( the latter for not doing enough, in Mobutu's opinion, to combat white minority rule in southern Africa ), introduced the " obligatory civic work " program called salongo, and initiated " radicalization " ( an extension of 1973's " Zairianization " policy ).

Upon her recovery from a nervous breakdown in 1968, Clooney signed with United Artists Records in 1976 for two albums.

) Upon entering office, President Woodrow Wilson segregated the United States Navy.

Upon her death, flags across the United States were lowered to half-staff in honor of the “ most idolized woman in America .”

Upon passing the GI Bill extension President Obama stated his support of the fighting forces of the United States by saying ; " Over the last eight years, they have endured tour after tour of duty in dangerous and distant places ," ... " They've experienced grueling combat, from the streets of Fallujah to the harsh terrain of Helmand province.

Upon release in November 1968, the album received largely positive reviews and reached number 1 on the charts in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Upon independence Barbados maintained historical linkages with Britain by establishing membership to the Commonwealth of Nations grouping.

Upon assuming power, Suharto dispatched his foreign minister Adam Malik to mend strained relations with the United States, the United Nations, and end the Sukarno-instigated Konfrontasi with Malaysia.

Upon his arrival at Roberts International Airport in Harbel, Liberia, Taylor was arrested and handcuffed by LNP officers, who then immediately transferred responsibility for the custody of Taylor to the United Nations Mission in Liberia ( UNMIL ).

Upon contact with the planet eating Mellenares the Blood Nations reached an uneasy alliance with the Earth military forces and joined in combat against the mutual enemy.

Upon arriving in office in 2001, President Bush withdrew United States support of the then-pending Kyoto Protocol, a United Nations Convention seeking to impose mandatory targets for reducing " greenhouse gas " emissions.

Upon withdrawal, the remaining staff in Freetown were transferred to United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone ( UNIOSIL ).

Upon the independence of Pakistan, Zafarullah Khan became the new country's minister of foreign affairs and served concurrently as leader of Pakistan's delegation to the United Nations ( 1947 – 1954 ).

Upon the death of his uncle Peyton Randolph in October 1775 Randolph returned to Virginia to act as executor of the estate, and while there was elected as a representative to the Virginia Convention.

Upon his return from Iraq, Kerik was politically active, campaigning for Republican candidates for political offices at all levels, including speaking at the 2004 Republican National Convention, where he endorsed George W. Bush for re-election.

Upon announcement that Oklahoma and Indian Territories were to combine into one state, Johnston was elected in 1906 to represent Noble and the surrounding counties at the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention.

Upon the latter's death he became minister of foreign affairs ( March 24, 1863 ) in the Minghetti cabinet, in which capacity he negotiated the September Convention for the evacuation of Rome by the French troops.

Upon the restoration he professed such royalist sentiments that he was not disturbed, in spite of the law of 1816 proscribing regicide ex-members of the Convention.

Upon Gerry's urging, the Convention added back the Virginia Plan's original method whereby Congress would propose amendments that the states would then ratify.