After the Senate approves the President can ratify it.

Given responsibility under the Constitution for approving treaties before a President ratifies them, the Senate has broadened its role in scrutinizing international accords, said Barry E. Carter, a professor of international law at Georgetown University.

When Kosygin visited Iraq in 1972, he and Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, the President of Iraq signed and ratified the Iraqi-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation.

The first definitive Argentine claim of sovereignty over the South Sandwich Islands was made even in 1938, when the President of Argentina ratified the 1934 Cairo Postal Convention.

In addition to being the only individual in the country with the authority to grant clemency, the President of Yemen must ratify all executions passed down by any court before they are carried out.

In addition, the President must ratify all death sentences before they are carried out, and is the only person in the country with the authority to enact a stay of execution.

Under the United States Constitution, the President of the United States may not ratify a treaty unless the U.S. Senate, by a two-thirds vote, gives its advice and consent.

Nonetheless, a President with a rare ability to compartmentalize his psyche has ratified a new attitude toward the private lives of public figures.