According to GOA's official website, their Board feels as though Americans have lost some of their gun rights, and GOA strives to get them back.

According to Akhil Reed Amar, the framers and early supporters of the Fourteenth Amendment believed that it would ensure that the states would be required to recognize the individual rights the federal government was already required to respect in the Bill of Rights and in other constitutional provisions ; all of these rights were likely understood as falling within the " privileges or immunities " safeguarded by the amendment.

According to the United States Government Printing Office, the following states ratified the amendment:

According to the Constitution of Singapore, a referendum can be held in a few circumstances, including situations when a constitutional amendment passed by the Parliament is rejected by the President, or when the nation's sovereignty needs to be decided ( i. e. merger or incorporation into other countries ).

According to the constitution of 1848, he had to step down at the end of his term, so he sought a constitutional amendment to allow him to succeed himself, arguing that four years were not enough to fully implement his political and economic program.

According to an amendment passed in December 2004, governors and presidents of Russia's constituent regions, who were previously elected by popular vote, are now proposed by the President of Russia for the approval of the local parliament Local parliaments theoretically have the authority to reject the candidate, but if this occurs three times, the parliament may be dissolved by the President and new parliamentary elections held.

According to Roth, " This amendment will formally recognize that character of military service which arises under the most hostile and difficult of circumstances -- that of being held prisoner by the enemy.

Pueblo was attacked .” According to Sen. Alan Cranston, who drafted the Senate version of the 1989 amendment to 10 USC § 1128, “ The Department of Defense has interpreted that provision Law 99-145, which is codified at section 1128 of title 10, as not permitting the award of POW Medal to individuals who were taken and held as prisoner in situations other than the classical prisoner-of-war situation during armed conflict.

According to the legislative history of the 1989 amendment to the POW Medal statute, internees were intended beneficiaries of the POW Medal so long as they were treated comparably to POWs during periods of armed conflict.

" According to Roche, the USAF hostages qualified because " were held by a foreign armed force hostile to the United States and were under circumstances comparable to prisoners held by enemy forces during periods of armed conflict ," a clear reference to the 1989 amendment.

According to the LCV, Dingell voted " pro-environment " on twelve out of twelve issues the group deemed critical ; they also praised him for introducing, along with representatives James Oberstar and Jim Leach, an amendment compelling the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) to rescind a directive issued in 2003 by the Bush Administration " requiring EPA staff to get permission from headquarters before protecting ' isolated ' water bodies like vernal pools, prairie potholes, playa lakes and bogs ," which provide " critical wildlife habitat, store flood water, and protect drinking water supplies.

According to Coleman, it is none other than the Congress itself — if and when the Congress should later be presented with valid ratifications from the required number of states — which has the discretion to arbitrate the question of whether too much time has elapsed between Congress ' initial proposal of that amendment and the most recent state ratification thereof assuming that, as a consequence of that most recent ratification, the legislatures of ( or conventions conducted within ) at least three-fourths of the states have ratified that amendment at one time or another.

According to a 2006 Boston Globe article, Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett Barrios proposed a restriction on the number of weekly servings of Marshmallow Fluff ( Fluffernutter ) sandwiches in the form of an amendment to a bill that will limit junk food in schools.

According to the Medford Transcript, TV3 Medford and the Medford City Council have been at " war " for years where the interpretation of the first amendment has been debated more than once since the formation of the organization in 1984.

According to The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press the effects of the amendment may be summarized roughly as follows:

Several of the Convention's provisions are prefaced with the words, " Subject to its constitutional principles and the basic concepts of its legal system, each Party shall ..." According to Fazey, " This has been used by the USA not to implement part of article 3 of the 1988 Convention, which prevents inciting others to use narcotic or psychotropic drugs, on the basis that this would be in contravention of their constitutional amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech.

According to Clauses 158 and 159 of the Basic Law, powers of interpretation and amendment of the Basic Law are vested in the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, respectively.

According to David Miller of the Daily Racing Form, " Fields, along with his nephew Brooks Hauser, formed Minnesota Racetrack Inc. after a constitutional amendment allowing parimutuel wagering on horse racing was approved by Minnesota voters in 1982.

According to Lee Yun-ping, chairman of the Chinese historical society, Sun needed a certificate to enter the United States at a time when the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 would have otherwise blocked him.

According to the Malkavian Clanbook, Dementation was blocked by six of the oldest Malkavians who called for a gathering of the entire clan through the Malkavian Madness Network.

According to Hickok's own account, he found the road blocked by a Cinnamon bear and its two cubs.

According to the book President Obama supported a financial transaction tax on trades of stocks, derivatives, and other financial instruments, but he was blocked by Summers.

According to Kojiki, the entrance to Yomi lies in Izumo province and was sealed off by Izanagi upon his flight from Yomi, at which time he permanently blocked the entrance by placing a massive boulder ( Chibiki-no-Iwa 千引の岩 ) at the base of the slope that leads to Yomi ( Yomotsu Hirasaka 黄泉平坂 or 黄泉比良坂 ).

According to Woodrow Wyatt, who helped persuade Thatcher to ensure this, the Commission " almost certainly would have blocked it.

According to Mozart's father Leopold, Van Swieten was involved in the early planning of Wolfgang's ill-fated opera La Finta Semplice ( the opera was later blocked by intrigues, and could be performed only in Salzburg ).

On March 30, 2010, China's Web filter, known as " the Great Firewall ", temporarily blocked all Google searches in China, due to an unintentional association with the long-censored term “ rfa .” According to Google, the letters, associated with Radio Free Asia, were appearing in the URLs of all Google searches, thereby triggering China's filter to block search results.

According to a BBC news article, Eliyahu Yardeni, a senior figure in the London Kabbalah Centre has been quoted as saying, " Just to tell you another thing about the six million Jews that were killed in the Holocaust: the question was that the Light was blocked.

According to the Boston Globe, Coburn initially blocked passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act ( GINA ), objecting to provisions in the bill that allow discrimination based on genetic information from embryos and fetuses.

According to ONI, with the sophisticated system of internet filtering developed by Iran, the websites Blogger and Persianblog are often blocked.

According to a 1901 NY Times article, the Ministry of the Interior denied that the persistence of famine in the region and blocked non-State charities from bringing aid to the area.

According to several commentators, the project was intentionally blocked.

According to av-comparatives, Norton Internet Security was " Best Product of 2009 ", Bronze award for 98. 6 % detection rate in 2010 and Norton Internet Security 2010 blocked 99 / 100 internet threats from infecting the user's computer.

According to Senator Bob Graham, who was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee from June 2001 through the buildup to the Iraq war, " Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation into that relationship ," as reported by the Miami Herald.

According to sources cited by National Defense Minister Lee Jye, the US stance was that until a long-stalled arms purchase package consisting of six Patriot Missile Batteries, 12 P-3C Orion anti-submarine aircraft and 8 conventional submarines cleared the legislature, it did not see the ROC as having a consistent military procurement plan and temporarily blocked the sale.

According to Josephus ' account of the siege of Yodfat, he and his 40 comrade soldiers were trapped in a cave, the exit of which was blocked by Romans.

According to stanzas 96-102 of the poem Hávamál from the Poetic Edda, Odin was told by the maiden to meet her after nightfall when it would be safest and she would give herself to him, but when Odin returned he found the path blocked by warriors with swords and burning torches.

According to some sources, Hewitt wanted Taylor to play for the Toronto Marlboros and blocked his attempts to play for other teams.

According to Marx, monopolies and competition always co-exist ; monopolies in the production of goods and services are rarely permanent, and as soon as competition is blocked at one level, it reappears at another level.

According to Stephenson, KUNM's attempt to move its transmitter to Sandia Crest was " blocked " by KKOB AM in 1973.

According to Arkansas state and Federal law, a seriously mentally impaired inmate cannot be executed.

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

According to the Board of Governors, the Federal Reserve is independent within government in that " its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, " the Federal Reserve has the authority and financial resources to act as ' lender of last resort ' by extending credit to depository institutions or to other entities in unusual circumstances involving a national or regional emergency, where failure to obtain credit would have a severe adverse impact on the economy.

:: Example 2 ( parliamentary republic ): According to Chapter V, Article 60 ( 2 ) of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany:

According to the Federal Expellee Law Par.

According to files declassified by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mrs. Simpson was believed to be a regular guest at Ribbentrop's social gatherings at the German Embassy in London where it was thought the two struck up a romantic relationship.

According to Federal Election Commission data, Spacey has contributed US $ 42, 000 to Democratic candidates and committees.

According to the Federal Board of Revenue's 2006-2007 year book, tax and customs units in Karachi were responsible for 46. 75 % of direct taxes, 33. 65 % of federal excise tax, and 23. 38 % of domestic sales tax.

According to the Federal Constitution of Malaysia, the YDPA is considered as the Supreme Head of the Federation ( Article 32 ).

According to professor A. V. Dicey in An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, the essential features of a federal constitution are: a ) A written supreme constitution in order to prevent disputes between the jurisdictions of the Federal and State authorities ; b ) A distribution of power between the Federal and State governments and c ) A Supreme Court vested with the power to interpret the Constitution and enforce the law of the land remaining independent of both the executive and legislative branches.

According to a 1996 report of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress, during Reagan's two terms, and through 1993, the top 10 % of taxpayers paid an increased share of income taxes ( not including payroll taxes ) to the Federal government, while the lowest 50 % of taxpayers paid a reduced share of income tax revenue.

According to the Federal Government, about 1. 1 million children were Home Educated in 2003.

According to the Federal Government, about 1. 1 million children were Home Educated in 2003.

According to the Federal Election Commission ( FEC ), the NLP spent $ 2. 3 million on its presidential campaign in the 1999-2000 election cycle.

According to former Libertarian National Committee Chairman Mark Hinkle, " Federal anti-obscenity laws are unconstitutional in two ways.

* August 1 – According to tradition, the Swiss Confederation is formed by Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden, the " three forest cantons ", at Rütli by the Federal Charter.

According to some sources, when it opened for the 1914 Federal League season, Weeghman Park had a seating capacity of 14, 000.

According to Federal Standard 1037C:

According to Homeland security research, the U. S. federal Homeland Security and Homeland Defense includes 187 federal agencies and departments, including the United States National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the 14 agencies that constitute the U. S. intelligence community and Civil Air Patrol.

According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, there were 37 banks and 21 credit unions operating in Brooklyn in 2010.

According to the Federal Highway Administration ( FHWA ), the Lincoln Tunnel XBL is the country's HOV facility with the highest number of peak hour persons among HOV facilities with utilization data available, with 23, 500 persons in the morning peak, and 62, 000 passengers during the 4-hour morning peak.

According to Yuri Udodov, head of the Federal Committee on Ecology ( FCE ) in the state of Irkutsk, this region has " the highest rate of discharge of metallic mercury into the environment all of Siberia.