On June 16, 1866, the House Joint Resolution proposing the 14th amendment to the Constitution was submitted to the states. On July 28, 1868, the 14th amendment was declared, in a certificate of the Secretary of State, ratified by the necessary 28 of the 37 States, and became part of the supreme law of the land.assed by Congress June 13, 1866, and ratified July 9, 1868, the 14th amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to former slaves.
Before the Oresund Bridge, residents of Malmo in Sweden or Copenhagen in Denmark had to take a one and a half hour ferry ride across the Oresund Strait that separates the two countries and cities.
Trelleborg (Swedish pronunciation: ) is a town in Scania, Sweden, with 28,290 inhabitants in 2010. It is the southernmost town in Sweden located some 10-15 km west from the southernmost peak of Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula. It's one of the most important ferry towns in Scandinavia as well as around the Baltic Sea.