Ejemplos de uso de RATIFIERS
1. Historians continue to deepen our understanding of how varied and occasionally contradictory were the intentions of the framers and ratifiers.
2. If you agree with the Supreme Court‘s 2003 ruling that such laws violate the due–process guarantee, do you think the Amendment‘s framers and ratifiers meant for it to overturn the 32 states‘ laws?
3. Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago Law School says, "On historical grounds, it would not be at all implausible to say that the ratifiers of the [Equal Protection] Clause understood it to permit racial segregation as well as affirmative action." So what help are "historical grounds" when construing the Constitution?
4. When America‘s Constitution was ratified in 178', federalism was an unfinished fact. (It still is, but today‘s adjustments of states‘ rights and responsibilities are minor matters.) If the federal government of 178' had not grown in strength, relative to the states, far more than most ratifiers of the Constitution anticipated or desired, the United States probably would not have remained united.
5. Tribe says justices must respect the ways in which the Constitution "is a work in process, a body of law that ‘We the People‘ do not in fact ‘ordain and establish‘ all at once, in the originalist‘s equivalent of the physicist‘s big bang." But "originalists" strive to promote judicial restraint by stressing that the Constitution must be construed to mean only what the Framers and ratifiers of the text thought it meant.