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.
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was the first constitution of the United States. It was drafted by the Second Continental Congress from mid-1776 through late-1777, and ratification by all 13 states was completed in early 1781. When submitted to the states, ratification by thirteen states was required for it to become part of the Constitution; eleven had done so by early 1812. 2  However, with the addition of Louisiana into the Union that year (April 30, 1812), the ratification threshold rose to fourteen.