But his efforts were defeated by the unrelenting hostility of the church, and by the incapacity of his contemporaries to understand his aims. After being forced in his lifetime to submit to authority, he was consigned by Dante to hell.
The Arizona Constitution was written in 1910. It was amended and ratified by Arizona voters and was approved by Congress in 1911. On February 14, 1912, Arizona was declared an equal State of the Union. Arizona citizens exercised their right to amend the Constitution since that time. The current Constitution is the first and only Constitution adopted by the state of Arizona. The Constitution is divided into a preamble and 30 articles. Article XXI of the Arizona Constitution provides the Mode of Amending. 1  The three methods of constitutional amendment allowed under Article 21 are: 2  Initiated constitutional amendments. 3  Legislatively-referred constitutional amendments. 4  A constitutional convention called by a statewide vote of the people.
History and Ratification. The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on June 13, 1866. It was declared, in a certificate of the Secretary of State dated July 28, 1868 to have been ratified by the legislatures of 28 of the 37 States.