And without ratification, we risk undoing decades of American leadership on nuclear security, and decades of bipartisanship on this issue.

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Without such international ratification, a Camp David agreement will go precisely the way of the Oslo agreement of 1993.

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The promise of enumerated rights enabled the ratification of the Constitution without fear that a more centralized government would encroach on American freedoms.

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That was impossible without at least some of the former Confederate states joining in this ratification.

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Without either endorsing or opposing it, Congress agreed to forward the Constitution to the states, for ratification.

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Its ratification depends on there being confidence that the US nuclear warhead stockpile can be safely and effectively maintained without test detonations.

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