7 sentences with 'ratified'

Example sentences and phrases with the word ratified and other words derived from it.

« Shortly afterwards, Charles Martel's son, Pippin the Short, seized power from the Merovingians in a coup d'état, later ratified by the Pope in Rome, ensuring the legitimacy of the change and establishing the Carolingians as the rightful rulers of the Frankish kingdom. »
« James I was already King of Scotland when he inherited the English crown, so England and Scotland were politically united and the kingdom of "Great Britain" was born (later ratified as a permanent legal reality in 1707 with the "Act of Union" passed by parliament). »
« And, also like the first Napoleon, Louis Napoleon had his power ratified by bypassing the Assembly entirely and calling a plebiscite (the vote of the entire male population) in support of his title, which he won by an overwhelming majority. »
« The Cabildo accepted the request for a change of triumvirs, and to succeed those who had been dismissed, it chose Antonio Álvarez Jonte, Nicolás Rodríguez Peña and Juan José Paso. Their names were ratified by popular vote. »
« Significantly, a direct federal income tax was not immediately imposed. It was not until the Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, that a federal income tax was established. »
« Thus, to avoid giving the people too much direct power, the delegates ensured that senators were elected by the state legislatures, rather than directly by the people (direct election of senators came with the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1913). »
« Virginia ratified by a vote of eighty-nine to seventy-nine, and Rhode Island by thirty-four to thirty-two. »

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