For example, in the Senate Reform Reference, the Government of Canada asked the Court for its advice specifically on whether the Constitution could be formally amended to establish fixed senatorial terms, for instance terms of eight, nine or ten years--using the unilateral federal
amendment procedure in section 44.
5) Biennial
Amendment 10-Pertained to the Board of Directors and expanded the BOD from the seven proposed in the Transformational Bylaws to nine and added a place for the new graduate nurse.
The House passed the resolution to make the 14th
Amendment part of the Constitution, and the Senate did too, though the latter made revisions, cutting some of Stevens' more extreme planks.
All told, faith institutions representing nearly 500,000 congregants in Wisconsin publicly oppose this constitutional
amendment.
"The worst time for freedom of the press has almost always been during times of war," Floyd Abrams, a top First
Amendment lawyer, tells JS.
The Fourth
Amendment allows officers to take action when concerned with their safety or where necessary to prevent the destruction of evidence while still maintaining the sanctity of personal privacy.
In sum, the proposed
amendment should not be adopted.
Then, turning to the language of the 14th
Amendment, Field spelled out a sweeping new interpretation of due process, one whose reverberations are still felt in the legal battles over privacy and abortion.
If that is the case, then how can the SBA's budget be sliced and diced in a way that can adversely affect, or impact, the small minority business community?" Masterson extols the
amendment's recommendation of an additional $10 million to the number of procurement center representatives, which he says will help small business owners deal with the adverse impact of contract bundling.
Participation in student-run newspapers is another indication of First
Amendment savvy.
When asked if he would "expend any political capital" to push for the
amendment, Bush responded by noting that many in the Senate believed a federal statute called the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which was signed into law by former President Bill Clinton, was enough to ensure that gay Americans could not be legally married.
Several legislators have proposed additional
amendments to the Sec.