| But that does not mean that the framers, signers and ratifiers of that document didn't intend this concept to be an important pillar of our governing institutions. |
| After all, the ratifiers, and not the authors, turned the Constitution into law. |
| The UN-sponsored convention took 12 years to be effective in 2002 after obtaining the minimum number of 10 ratifiers. |
| Historians continue to deepen our understanding of how varied and occasionally contradictory were the intentions of various framers and ratifiers. |
| He felt that hypnotic physiological effects served as the most powerful ratifiers of trance experience. |
| In the three decades following the first ratification in 1968, the number of new ratifiers was forty-five, forty-five, and forty-nine, respectively. |
