If states cannot rescind their ratification proposals, then 2/3 of the states may have already voted to call an Article V Convention for the Balanced Budget Amendment Currently, the courts are ...

In 1933, three-quarters of the states ratified the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution—often referred to as the “Lame Duck Amendment”—the main purpose of which was to dramatically reduce the ...

Ratifying a contract means approving it, not necessarily signing it. This occurs after two parties negotiate the details of a contract, but one or both of the parties does not have the authority to ...

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A new academic study finds that when public companies give their shareholders a vote on the selection of an external auditing firm, they are less likely to make financial restatements than those that ...

This is part III of our series on the USMCA and its domestic path to ratification by Congress. Read part I and part II to get fully up to speed on the USMCA. With Congress back in session after its ...