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Ratified
Ratify Rat"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ratified; p. pr. & vb. n. Ratifying.] [F. ratifier, fr. L. ratus fixed by calculation, firm, valid + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Rate, n., and -fy.] To approve and sanction; to make valid; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination. It is impossible for the divine power to set a seal to a lie by ratifying an imposture with such a miracle. --South.

Meaning of ratified from wikipedia

- Only after the Senate approves the treaty can the President ratify it. Once it is ratified, it becomes binding on all the states under the Supremacy Clause...
- the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite...
- been ratified 14 years earlier. As is true for a state legislature when ratifying a proposed federal constitutional amendment, a state ratifying convention...
- particular state ratified the United States Constitution. Ratification Day (United States) Ratification Day (Connecticut) Ratification Day (M****achusetts)...
- the 1973 Constitution been ratified validly? Has the Constitution been acquiesced to (with or without valid ratification) by the people? Are petitioners...
- South Dakota Legislature ratified the ERA in 1973, but in 1979 p****ed Senate Joint Resolution 2 which required the ERA be ratified in the original time limit...
- governed by it, not the intermediary states. The Constitution should be ratified, along with any "practical" amendments, after the new nation was begun...
- "full legal capacity". Ratified the treaty but has subsequently denounced it and withdrawn. Not including North Korea, which ratified the treaty but subsequently...
- Ohio and New Jersey re-ratified the Fourteenth Amendment in 2003, all U.S. states that existed during Reconstruction have ratified the amendment. Jus soli...
- United States has either not signed, not ratified, or signed/ratified but later withdrawn its signature/ratification from. "[The President] shall have Power...