Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

He also asked Congress to approve establishment of a national child health institute.

On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee tabled a resolution before the Continental Congress declaring the colonies independent ; at the same time he also urged Congress to resolve “ to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances ” and to prepare a plan of confederation for the newly-independent states.

His veto message objected to the measure because it conferred citizenship on the freedmen at a time when eleven out of thirty-six states were unrepresented in the Congress, and the bill also attempted to fix, by federal law, " a perfect equality of the white and black races in every State of the Union.

The defense also argued that the President reserved the right to test the constitutionality of an act of Congress, in good faith.

" Johnson is a particular favorite for the bottom of the pile because of his impeachment, despite his acquittal, and also due to his mishandling of Reconstruction policy, his inept dealings with his Cabinet and Congress, his bristling personality and his sense of self-importance.

According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.

Congress has also created some special judicial bodies known as Article I tribunals to handle some areas of administrative law.

This was " Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by C. Bradlee, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts ", according to the Newberry Library, which also says, " The theme is that used by Mozart for his piano variations, Ah, vous dirai-je, maman.

The failure of the system to catch on in North America was partly because of its internal deficiencies but also because the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems were already well established.

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists (; derived from bol ' shinstvo, " majority ") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( RSDLP ) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

This election was also important because new parties won several seats in Congress, more than ever.

, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

The 10th Party Congress also introduced a ban on factionalism within the Communist Party ; however, what Lenin considered to be ' platforms ', such as the Democratic Centralists and the Workers Opposition, were allowed.

Its top level divisions served as a basis for the Library of Congress classification, which also took over some of its features.

The President is also Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces, and as such has broad authority over the armed forces ; however only Congress has authority to declare war, and the civilian and military budget is written by the Congress.

Congress also has power to regulate commerce with foreign nations.

Funding was also extended for three more years through Public No. 163, 75th Congress, effective 1 July 1937.

* 1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or Superfund, is enacted by the U. S. Congress.

As a result, while the Library of Congress Classification system was able to incorporate changes and additions of new branches of knowledge, particularly in the fields of engineering and computer science ( the greater hospitability of the Library of Congress Classification was also a factor ), DDC has been criticized for being inadequate in covering those areas.

They both also made proposals to Congress and other provincial bodies for carrying out an invasion of Quebec.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of July 3, 1952 ( 66 Stat. 328 ) as amended ( 42 U.S.C. 1952-1958 ), is further amended to read as follows: Section 1.

On 1 December 1988, the Supreme Soviet amended the Soviet constitution to allow for the establishment of a Congress of People's Deputies as the Soviet Union's new supreme legislative body.

An amended bill for gradually eliminating slavery in Missouri precipitated two years of bitter debate in Congress.

The Official Languages Act was eventually amended in 1967 by the Congress Government headed by Indira Gandhi to guarantee the indefinite use of Hindi and English as official languages.

Nonetheless, the aforementioned U. S. Presidential and Congressional Reports state that the current prerogatives assumed by the Puerto Rico government are delegated by the U. S. Congress and may be amended or eliminated at its sole behest.

Following the establishment of a definition for an amateur athlete at the 1894 Congress, he would continue to argue that this definition should be amended as necessary, and as late as 1909 would argue that the Olympic movement should develop its definition of amateurism gradually.

In 1992 the Congress was even further empowered, including ability to suspend any articles of the Constitution ( per amended art.

In 1998 the US Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities.

After its adoption by the First Pan African Congress in 1947, the Three-Stage Chronology was amended by the Third Congress in 1955 to include a First Intermediate Period between Early and Middle, to encompass the Fauresmith and Sangoan technologies, and the Second Intermediate Period between Middle and Later, to encompass the Magosian technology and others.

" According to the Party's statute, amended at the 9th National Congress on 22 April 2001, the CPV was " established and trained by President Hồ Chí Minh, has led the Vietnamese people to carry out successfully the August Revolution, establishing the Democratic Republic of Việt Nam, now the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam, to defeat foreign invaders, to abolish the colonial and feudalist regime, to liberate and reunify the country, and then carry out the cause of renovation and socialist construction and firmly defend national independence.

#: Reaction in Congress against the Reconstruction-era suspensions of Southern states ' rights to organize militias led to the passage of the Posse Comitatus Act, restricting any person's use of the U. S. Army and, as later amended, the U. S. Air Force in domestic law enforcement ( use of the Navy and Marine Corps, being uniformed services within the Department of Defense, is similarly restricted by statute ).

In 2003, Congress amended the CDA to remove the indecency provisions struck down in Reno v. ACLU.

Legislation is usually proposed by a member of the legislature ( e. g. a member of Congress or Parliament ), or by the executive, whereupon it is debated by members of the legislature and is often amended before passage.

It was later amended by Congress in 1978, and again in 1986 to apply only to transport for the purpose of prostitution or illegal sexual acts.

The Act has been renewed and amended by Congress four times, the most recent being a 25-year extension signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2006.

Congress amended this section in 1982, prohibiting any voting practice or procedure that has a discriminatory result.

In the 1982 action, Congress amended the Act to make some sections ( including section 2 ) permanent while renewing the remainder ( including section 5 ) for 25 years ( until July 1, 2007 ).

The Taft – Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act ( NLRA ; informally the Wagner Act ), which Congress passed in 1935.

Removal of the Bellamy salute occurred on December 22, 1942, when Congress amended the Flag Code language first passed into law on June 22, 1942.

On January 3, 1996, the 104th Congress of the United States amended or repealed sections of the Communications Act of 1934 with the new Telecommunications Act of 1996.

In 1972, Congress amended the Smith-Mundt Act, based on this event, to explicitly prohibit the domestic dissemination of materials produced by the USIA.

Having further amended the Declaration on July 2 and 3, the Committee adopted the Declaration in final form on Thursday, July 4 ; Harrison duly reported this to the Congress, and delivered to Congress a final reading of the Declaration.