Assertion: amendment's proposal | /r/HasProperty | lost its vitality
Facets:
value: prior to the required ratifications
type: TEMPORAL
value: by lapse of time
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Although the "Madison Amendment" was not associated with a ratification deadline, whereas the proposing clause of the ERA did include a deadline, states have in the past ratified amendments after a deadline,[which?] and Congress has not rejected those ratifications (as the Supreme Court has said, "Congress in controlling the promulgation of the adoption of a constitutional amendment has the final determination of the question whether by lapse of time its proposal of the amendment had lost its vitality prior to the required ratifications").