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.
Forty-one years later, in 1919, Congress approved the amendment and submitted it to the states for ratification. It was ratified by the requisite number of states a year later, with Tennessee 's ratification being the final vote needed to add the amendment to the Constitution.In Leser v. Garnett (1922), the Supreme Court rejected claims that the amendment was unconstitutionally adopted.t was ratified by the requisite number of states a year later, with Tennessee 's ratification being the final vote needed to add the amendment to the Constitution. In Leser v. Garnett (1922), the Supreme Court rejected claims that the amendment was unconstitutionally adopted.