At one time the text of the Charter at the official website of the Palestinian National Authority appended these amendments to the text of the 1968 charter ; the redrafting process referred to in the second amendment still remains uncompleted.

Many commentators noted that the text only indicated a decision to amend the charter, not an actual amendment.

While the Constitution always granted Congress the authority to meet on a different day without the need to pass an amendment, § 2 of the Twentieth Amendment " tidied up " the constitutional text by paralleling the original provision requiring that the Congress meet at least once a year in December, and changing it to January 3 ( unless changed by law ).

The limitation originally took the form of a clause in the text of the constitutional amendment itself, such as " This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

However, with the Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth amendments, Congress instead placed the ratification deadline in the resolving clause of the joint resolution proposing the amendment rather than in the amendment's actual text.

It was accepted that if the deadline had been contained within the actual text of the amendment itself, Congress could not have extended it, as doing so would involve changing the text of an amendment already ratified by some of the states.

In the case of the Equal Rights Amendment, however, it was argued that since the original March 22, 1979, deadline was contained in only the resolving clause of the joint resolution proposing the amendment — rather than in the actual text of the amendment itself — that the deadline could be altered.

To avoid this controversy with the 1978 constitutional amendment proposed to grant congressional representation to the residents of Washington, D. C., Congress returned to the habit of placing the deadline within the actual text of the amendment itself.

* ( PDF, providing text of amendment and dates of ratification )

While the amendment did not become law, a version of it appears in the Conference Report as an explanatory text about the legislative history and purposes of the bill.

There is no evidence that Handel played any active role in the selection or preparation of the text, such as he did in the case of Saul ; it seems, rather, that he saw no need to make any significant amendment to Jennens's work.

The day before, Senate Republicans defeated ( in a 54-43 vote ) a Democratic sponsored amendment to S. 900 that would have substituted the text of S. 753 ( also providing for the repeal of Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 ).

A constitutional amendment is a formal change to the text of the written constitution of a nation or state.

Thus once an amendment has become law, portions of the original text may be deleted or new articles may be inserted among existing ones.

The second, less common method, is for amendments to be appended to the end of the main text in the form of special articles of amendment, leaving the body of the original text intact.

In other words, in the event of conflict, an article of amendment will usually take precedence over the provisions of the original text, or of an earlier amendment.

As an alternative to an outright ban, 10 countries follow regulations that are contained in a 1996 amendment of Protocol II of the Convention on Conventional Weapons ( CCW ).

In 1788, the Virginia Ratifying Convention attempted to solve the problem that Hamilton and the Federalists had identified by proposing a constitutional amendment specifying:

In 1998, the coalition played a critical role during the conception of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, an amendment to the Convention on the Rights of the Child ( CRC ).

In an attempt to obtain international acceptance for the legal recognition of traditional use of coca in their respective countries, Peru and Bolivia successfully led an amendment, paragraph 2 of Article 14 into the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, stipulating that measures to eradicate illicit cultivation and to eliminate illicit demand “ should take due account of traditional licit use, where there is historic evidence of such use .” Bolivia also made a formal reservation to the 1988 Convention, which required countries to adopt measures to establish the use, consumption, possession, purchase or cultivation of the coca leaf for personal consumption as a criminal offence.

The Hague conference adopted a Protocol for the amendment of the Warsaw Convention.

In April 1850, Stone wrote to women in Ohio who were planning a Woman's Rights Convention in Salem, asking them to put pressure on the Ohio legislature to write a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.

An earlier amendment to the act, the D ’ Amato Amendment, prohibited the US from selling arms or extending any sort of financial assistance to Iraq unless the President could prove Iraq was in “ substantial compliance ” with the provisions of a number of human rights conventions, including the Genocide Convention.

" The 1998 Constitutional Convention recommended an amendment to the constitution to prevent the possibility of the jurisdiction being removed by Parliament.

To amend the state constitution, an amendment needs the endorsement of at least 25 % of the members of both houses of the legislature, which meet jointly as a Constitutional Convention at the end of the legislative session.

* Protocol III, 2005 Geneva Convention amendment about the adoption of the Red Crystal emblem

Senator Henry M. Teller, a Democrat from Colorado ( who had switched parties after leading a revolt against the Republican establishment at the 1896 Republican Presidential Convention ) proposed the amendment to ensure that the United States would not establish permanent control over Cuba following the cessation of hostilities with Spain.

Note that this provision was not required by the European Convention ( protocol 6 permits the death penalty in time of war ; protocol 13, which prohibits the death penalty for all circumstances, did not then exist ); rather, the government introduced it as a late amendment in response to parliamentary pressure.

The first Constitutional Convention vote on the petition amendment was scheduled for July 12, 2006, but was postponed until November 9, 2006 to take place after the next state elections.

The amendment received 62 " for " votes in Constitutional Convention and thereby cleared its first hurdle toward ratification.

* January 2, 2007: The proposed amendment received a vote on the last day of the 2006 Constitutional Convention.

The Customs Convention on Containers ( CCC-1972 ) in a recent amendment enforced in 2008 also makes reference to the ISO 6346 and code registration with BIC to allow the free circulation of containers worldwide.

The International Ship and Port Facility Security ( ISPS ) Code is an amendment to the Safety of Life at Sea ( SOLAS ) Convention ( 1974 / 1988 ) on minimum security arrangements for ships, ports and government agencies.

At the 1919 State Convention of the Socialist Party of Michigan, Keracher was elected head of the state organization and an amendment was adopted by the assembled delegates calling for the expulsion from the Socialist Party of Michigan of anyone who engaged in electoral politics.

In addition, there are three additional amendment protocols to the Geneva Convention:

In 1909 in Ithaca, New York, the 15th Convention of Delta Chi adopted an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting dual-membership ( i. e. initiating members of other fraternities, and prohibiting Delta Chi members from joining other fraternities ).

For 3 days votes were held, until at last ( on a swing vote by the Buffalo Alumni Chapter representative ), the Convention adopted the Wadsworth amendment.

An amendment to the Aarhus Convention on " Public Participation in Decisions on Deliberate Release into the Environment and Placing on the Market of Genetically Modified Organisms " was adopted at the Second Meeting of the Parties on 27 May 2005, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The GMO amendment will enter into force 90 days after at least three-quarters of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention ratify it.

In 1983, Peter Greyson, an art student, entered Ottawa's National Archives ( known today as Library and Archives Canada ) and poured red paint mixed with glue over a copy of the proclamation of the 1982 constitutional amendment.

Those who opposed the amendment in North America became known as the " Unamended fellowship " and allowed the teaching that God either could not or would not raise those who had no covenant relationship with him.

The constitutional flaws in the process of presidential succession had been known since the death of President William Henry Harrison in 1841, but little progress had been made passing a constitutional amendment to remedy the problem.

* March 22 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act known as the Cullen-Harrison Act, allowing the manufacture and sale of " 3. 2 beer " ( 3. 2 % alcohol by weight, approximately 4 % alcohol by volume ) and light wines.

The Santorum Amendment was a failed proposed amendment to the 2001 education funding bill ( which became known as the No Child Left Behind Act ), proposed by Republican Rick Santorum ( who was at that time the United States Senator for Pennsylvania ), which promoted the teaching of intelligent design while questioning the academic standing of evolution in U. S. public schools.

The case lasted ten years, involved the only police raid on an animal laboratory in the United States, triggered an amendment in 1985 to that country's Animal Welfare Act, and established PETA as an internationally known organization.

However his two successors were both elected – and known – as " Presidents of Dáil Éireann ", although no further amendment had been made to the constitution.

The term biosolids was formally created in 1991 by the Name Change Task Force of the Water Environment Federation ( WEF ), formerly known as the " Federation of Sewage Works Associations " to differentiate raw, untreated sewage sludge from treated and tested sewage sludge that can legally be utilized as soil amendment and fertilizer.

In a decision that came to be known as the Patriation Reference, the SCC ruled that such a convention did exist, but it did not legally prevent the Parliament of Canada from unilaterally seeking the amendment of the Constitution without consent of the provinces.

Same-sex marriage opponents in California placed a state constitutional amendment known as Proposition 8 on the November 2008 ballot for the purpose of restoring an opposite-sex definition of marriage.

The first part of the above amendment which reads " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion " is known as the Establishment Clause, while the second part (" or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ") is known as the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

On March 14, 1876, the Colorado territorial legislature passed an amendment to the state constitution that provided money for the establishment of the University of Colorado in Boulder, the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and Colorado Agricultural College in Fort Collins, now known as Colorado State University.

In 1954, an amendment known as the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act made Fannie Mae into " mixed-ownership corporation " meaning that federal government held the preferred stock while private investors held the common stock ; in 1968 it converted to a privately held corporation, to remove its activity and debt from the federal budget.

93-618 ) established conditions on U. S. MFN / NTR tariff treatment to certain non-market economies, one of which is certain freedom-of-emigration requirements ( better known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment ).

He authored and championed the Aid Elimination Penalty ( also known as the Drug-Free Student Loan amendment ), enacted in 1998 as part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.

Senator John McCain is responsible for a last-minute amendment which makes businesses promoted in spam subject to FTC penalties and enforcement remedies, if they knew or should have known that their business was being promoted by the use of spam.

The McCain amendment, as it is known, was authored for Senator McCain's office by Anne P. Mitchell

In June 2008, the section of the act known as the " millionaire's amendment " was overturned by the Supreme Court in Davis v. Federal Election Commission.

In 2008 his amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, known as the Waddington Amendment, inserted a freedom of speech clause into new anti-homophobic hate crime legislation.

On March 2, 1889, Congress passed an amendment with the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889, which provided for the opening of homesteading settlements in Unassigned Lands, to be known as Oklahoma.

Therefore, Stupak and Republican Congressman Joseph R. Pitts submitted an amendment known as the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to prohibit such payments.

The first amendment to the US Constitution states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof " The two parts, known as the " establishment clause " and the " free exercise clause " respectively, form the textual basis for the Supreme Court's interpretations of the " separation of church and state " doctrine.

Colloquially, the switch to a domestic amendment procedure was known as patriation.