The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.

The United States House Committee on Education and Labor states that the amendment " makes it absolutely clear that the ADA is intended to provide broad coverage to protect anyone who faces discrimination on the basis of disability ".

* 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the " Qur ' an and Sunnah " the " supreme law " but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

First: it " mandates that whoever is the sovereign of the United Kingdom is also, by virtue of this external fact, sovereign of Australia "; accordingly, changes to British succession laws would have no effect on Australian law, but if the British amendment changed the sovereign, then the new sovereign of the United Kingdom would automatically become the new sovereign of Australia.

* 1933 – Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3. 2 % alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.

An attempt by the French government to incorporate the independent Breton-language immersion schools ( called Diwan ) into the state education system was blocked by the French Constitutional Council on the grounds that, as the 1992 amendment to the Constitution of the 5th Republic states that French is the language of the Republic, no other language may be used as a language of instruction in state schools.

However, to Cranmer is ' credited the overall job of editorship and the overarching structure of the book ' including the systematic amendment of his materials to remove any idea that human merit contributed to their salvation.

Compost ( or ) is organic matter that has been decomposed and recycled as a fertilizer and soil amendment.

This amendment has not yet been ratified by the requisite number of Parties, therefore it is not yet in force.

Another factor related to the number of Senate seats is that a constitutional amendment in the early 20th century mandated that no province can have fewer Members of Parliament than it has senators.

This is used by all Old Paths ecclesias without amendment from the days of Robert Roberts.

Currently, it is a rigid document and no subsequent amendment has been made to it since its adoption.

As of today, the Law Reform Commission recommendation still stands and has not as yet been acted upon ; the Firearms Act consists of the initial 1925 Act amended by approximately eighteen separate Acts and is well understood by only a handful of those directly involved in its drafting, amendment or usage.

Since the constitutional amendment of 23 October 1989, Hungary is a parliamentary republic.

In monarchies with a written constitution, the position of monarch is a creature of the constitution and could quite properly be abolished through a democratic procedure of constitutional amendment, although there are often significant procedural hurdles imposed on such a procedure ( as in the Constitution of Spain ).

IEEE 802. 15. 4a ( formally called IEEE 802. 15. 4a-2007 ) is an amendment to IEEE 802. 15. 4 specifying additional physical layers ( PHYs ) to the original standard.

The IEEE 802. 15 Task Group 4e is chartered to define a MAC amendment to the existing standard 802. 15. 4-2006.

The intent of this amendment is to enhance and add functionality to the 802. 15. 4-2006 MAC to a ) better support the industrial markets and b ) permit compatibility with modifications being proposed within the Chinese WPAN.

IEEE 802. 15. 4g Smart Utility Networks ( SUN ) Task Group is chartered to create a PHY amendment to 802. 15. 4 to provide a global standard that facilitates very large scale process control applications such as the utility smart-grid network capable of supporting large, geographically diverse networks with minimal infrastructure, with potentially millions of fixed endpoints.

802. 11n is an amendment which improves upon the previous 802. 11 standards by adding multiple-input multiple-output antennas ( MIMO ).

" In Joseph Story's 1833 treatise Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, he wrote, " t is a most important and valuable amendment ; and places upon the high ground of constitutional right the inestimable privilege of a trial by jury in civil cases, a privilege scarcely inferior to that in criminal cases, which is conceded by all to be essential to political and civil liberty.

Because Massiah is offense-specific, an assertion of the sixth amendment right to counsel requires the police to cease interrogating the defendant about any charged offense.

The inclination here is to accept a de facto cease-fire in Laos, rather than continue to insist on a verification of the cease-fire by the international control commission before participating in the Geneva conference.

As a result, the West is in a poor bargaining position at the current Geneva negotiations on Laos, and South Vietnam and other nations in Southeast Asia are under increased pressure.

* 1553 – Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva.

The text of this Convention is the result of some three years of intensive debate and negotiation at the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament at Geneva and at the United Nations.

Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, it is a war crime to transfer, directly or indirectly, the civilian population of a country power onto land under that country's military occupation.

The Swiss teacher, author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer ( Geneva, 1799 – 1846 ) is considered the father of the modern comic strips.

* 1602 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva.

United Methodist clergy are not required to be vested when celebrating the Eucharist, though it is most often the case that they are vested either in a Geneva gown and stole or an alb and stole.

Geneva (;, ;, ) is the second most populous city in Switzerland ( after Zurich ) and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Situated where the Rhone exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.

Geneva is a global city, a financial centre, and worldwide centre for diplomacy and the most important UN international co-operation centre with New York thanks to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many of the agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross.

It is also the place where the Geneva Conventions were signed, which chiefly concern the treatment of wartime non-combatants and prisoners of war.

and a 2009 survey by Mercer found Geneva to have the third-highest quality of life of any city in the world ( behind Vienna and Zurich ; it is narrowly outranked by Zurich ).

The name Geneva is probably of Celtic origin.

Thus, it is Geneva in English and,,,, and.

Another theory is that Geneva is derived from " Genévrier " which is the French word for " juniper ".

In 2010 Geneva City Council was made up of two representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), one member of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), one member of the Green Party and one member of the À gauche Toute party.

Geneva is located at 46 ° 12 ' North, 6 ° 09 ' East, at the south-western end of Lake Geneva, where the lake flows back into the Rhône River.

The part of the lake that is attached to Geneva has an area of and is sometimes referred to as Petit lac ( small lake ).