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Opposition MPs have called for the immediate suspension of the US-Ghana agreement until it is ratified by law.

But it was only able to enter force if more than 60 nations ratified it - meaning they agreed to be legally bound by it.

Opposition MPs are demanding the immediate suspension of the deportation deal until parliament ratifies it, saying this was required under Ghanaian law.

The school board would have to ratify more serious consequences that would affect pay or employment.

The framers wanted to make it neither too easy nor too difficult to tweak the Constitution: Amendments must be proposed by a two-thirds majority of Congress and then ratified by three-fourths of the states.