Amendments to the Convention must be supported by a two-thirds majority who are " present and voting " and can be made during an extraordinary meeting of the COP if one-third of the Parties are interested in such a meeting.

In the United States punitive damages awards are subject to the limitations imposed by the due process of law clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

* 1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U. S. President Bill Clinton.

** The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U. S. President Bill Clinton.

Passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are constitutional legacies of Reconstruction.

Amendments 14, 15, 19, 24, and 26 are not enforced unless subsequent to Amendment 23.

* Amendments are added to the 2003 US-British-Spanish Draft Resolution on Iraq, setting a deadline of March 17.

* Amendments IX and X of the U. S. Constitution are added here as Article VI Section 1 ( 5 ), and ( 6 )

Amendments are often totally forbidden during a state of emergency or martial law.

Among the protection for people with disabilities in the 1988 Amendments are seven construction requirements for all multifamily buildings of more than four units first occupied after March 13, 1991.

Amendments to the Constitution are made by the Parliament, the procedure for which is laid out in Article 368.

The rule of law applied by the Alabama courts was found constitutionally deficient for failure to provide the safeguards for freedom of speech and of the press that are required by the First and Fourteenth Amendments in a libel action brought by a public official against critics of his official conduct.

Amendments to the Constitution are excepted: the veto of the Senate is absolute.

In his book “ The Malaysian Constitution: A Critical Introduction ” he said that “ Admittedly, whether the frequency of amendments is necessarily a bad thing is difficult to say ,” because “ Amendments are something that are difficult to avoid especially if a constitution is more of a working document than a brief statement of principles .”

Under American jurisprudence, the avenues for use of this theory by courts are the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which prohibit the federal and state governments, respectively, from depriving any person of " life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996 ( E-FOIA ) stated that all agencies are required by statute to make certain types of records, created by the agency on or after November 1, 1996, available electronically.

However, the AALS has excused its members from blocking access to the military since the passage of the Solomon Amendments, which denies federal funding to the parent university of a law school as well as the school itself if military recruiters are not given full campus access.

Amendments to the Constitution are excepted: the veto of the Senate is absolute.

This is because, for technical reasons, officially there are no Twenty-fourth or Twenty-fifth Amendments.

In the United States, that includes describing the rights guaranteed by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments as well as a caution that non-citizens who are convicted of crimes risk expulsion from the country.

In the 1961 case Torcaso v. Watkins, the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that such language in state constitutions was in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, but did not rule on the applicability of Article VI, stating that " Because we are reversing the judgment on other grounds, we find it unnecessary to consider appellant's contention that this provision applies to state as well as federal offices.

* Bingo ( Amendments 386 and 387 in Jefferson, further amended by Amendment 600 in Madison Counties, Amendment 413 in Montgomery County, Amendment 440 in Mobile County, Amendment 506 in Etowah County, Amendment 508 in Calhoun County, Amendment 699 in Morgan County, Amendment 612 in Russell County, Amendment 674 in Lowndes County, and Amendment 692 in Limestone County, all of which are almost or exactly the same )

It is unique among the 27 Amendments of the U. S. Constitution for being the only one to repeal a previous Amendment, and for being the only one to have been ratified by the method of the state ratifying convention.

Consequently, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments had the effect of removing the institutional Checks and Balances on the Prime Minister's power, by giving him or her immunity from being legally dismissed.

Black was for so-called mechanical incorporation, or total incorporation, of Amendments 1 through 8 of the Bill of Rights ( Amendments 9 and 10 being patently connected to the powers of the federal government alone ).

At least four amendments ( the Seventeenth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, and Twenty-Fifth Amendments ) have been identified as being proposed by Congress at least partly in response to the threat of an Article V convention.

Amendments may be proposed by either:

On January 6, 1965, Senator Birch Bayh ( Kefauver's successor as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments ) proposed in the Senate and Representative Emanuel Celler ( Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee ) proposed in the House of Representatives what would become the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

Secretary Paige proposed successful amendments to the regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide more flexibility for educators to establish single-sex classes and schools at the elementary and secondary levels.

This all occurred when there was much argument over the proposed 14 and 15 Amendments to the Constitution.

In order to address these issues Harkin proposed the ADA Amendments Act, which in his words " will restore the proper balance and application of the ADA by clarifying and broadening the definition of disability, while increasing eligibility for ADA protections.

Amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia may be proposed by at least one-fifth of the members of the Croatian Parliament, the President of the Republic and the Government of the Republic of Croatia.

Amendments to the Constitution may be proposed in one of two ways: a two-thirds supermajority votes of each house of Congress or a constitutional convention called by two thirds ( currently 34 ) of the states.

It is also Senate procedure that all proposed Constitutional Amendments pass through the Judiciary Committee.

Thus, there was included within of February 4, 1977, the Committee System Reorganization Amendments of 1977, a provision to establish a Select Committee on Indian Affairs with full jurisdiction over all proposed legislation and other matters relating to Indian affairs.

Amendments have also been proposed in the federal scope, though the same difficulty in altering the constitution thwarted any changes, leading members of parliament ( MPs ) in Ottawa to table various bills that sought to alter the Parliament of Canada Act instead.

Amendments proposed by President Chávez and parliament were twice decided in referendums:

Amendments to the constitution are proposed by the state legislature with a three-fifths vote in both chambers.

In October, 2006, Van Os proposed constitutional amendments he termed " Citizens ' Protection Amendments ," to protect Texans from continuing abuses of eminent domain and toll roads.

* House of Lords briefing in support of Amendments proposed by Legal Action Group in relation to hearsay evidence-June 2003

* Amendments to Minnesota's Constitution proposed to the voters since 1858 ( PDF )

Several different Human Life Amendments have been proposed in Congress since 1973, with twenty total days of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1974, 1975, and 1981, several other hearings before other committees, and a number of floor debates.

Amendments are proposed both to make policy changes and to make clerical changes such as gender neutrality.