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The Amendment ( Ato Adicional ) of August 12, 1834, enacted in a period of liberal reform, authorized the provinces to create their own legislative chambers, which were empowered to legislate on financial matters, create taxes and their own corps of civil servants under a chief executive nominated by the central power ; it was however revised by an " interpretive " act of May 1840, enacted in a period of conservative reaction, which allowed the central power to appoint judges and police officers in the provinces.
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An attempt to strengthen executive powers in 1926 ( through the August Amendment ) proved too limited and largely failed in helping avoid legislative grid-lock which had ensued as a result of too-great parliamentary power in a state which had numerus diametrically-opposed political parties sitting in its legislature.
However, it was mainly Harding's support in the Senate for women's suffrage legislation that made him more popular with that demographic: the ratification of the 19th Amendment in August 1920 brought huge crowds of women to Marion, Ohio, to hear Harding.
* August 26 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
* August 14 – The Poor Law Amendment Act in the UK states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance unless he enters a workhouse ( a kind of poorhouse ).
This election was the first since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 18, 1920, and thus the first in which women had the right to vote in all 48 states.
In response to the anti-war movement, the U. S. Congress passed the Case-Church Amendment to prohibit further U. S. military intervention in Vietnam in June 1973 and reduced aid to South Vietnam in August 1974.
* August 1969 – The Brooke Amendment establishes that low income families only pay no more than 25 percent of their income for rent
On August 4, 2010, Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.
In August 2007, the Camp Meeting Association filed a federal suit to halt the state's investigation, on the grounds that the Methodist group's First Amendment rights were being infringed.
After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment ( granting women the vote ), the Justice Bell was brought to the front of Independence Hall on August 26, 1920 to finally sound.
British women over 30 had the vote in 1918, Dutch women in 1919, and American women won the vote August 26, 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
On August 29, testifying at his brother-in-law's deportation hearing in federal court, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 99 times so as not to answer questions such as whether he had engaged in fund-raising on behalf of organizations on the United States Department of State watch list.
Gregory was an outspoken feminist, and in 1978 he joined Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, Margaret Heckler, Barbara Mikulski, and original suffragists to lead the National ERA March for Ratification and Extension, a march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the United States Capitol of over 100, 000 on Women's Equality Day ( August 26 ), 1978 to demonstrate for a ratification deadline extension for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, and for the ratification of the ERA.
* In Jackson v. Abercrombie, federal District Court judge Alan Kay on August 8, 2012, citing Baker v. Nelson as controlling, rejected the claim by two lesbians that Hawaii's failure to provide for same-sex marriage violated the U. S. Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.
In 1970, after stepping down as NOW's first president, Friedan organized the nation-wide Women's Strike for Equality on August 26, the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote.
The 19th Amendment would finally be ratified on August 25, 1920, marking the first time that Olympia Brown along with countless other women were able to vote.
President Ghulam Ishaq Khan first used the VIII Amendment on August 6, 1990 against Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on alleged cases of nepotism and the corruption.
DeGette was also a cosponsor for the Udall Amendment to the House Energy Bill, which the House approved by a vote of 220 to 190 on August 4, 2007.
The deadline for ratification of the D. C. Voting Rights Amendment passed on August 22, 1985.
On August 9, 2007, GOA supported Senator Vitter's work in pushing through a bill stating that no U. S. funds can be used by the United Nations or any group affiliated with the United Nations to restrict or tax Second Amendment rights.
On 11 August 2006, Georgiou joined Russell Broadbent and Judi Moylan in crossing the floor to vote against the Migration Amendment ( Designated Unauthorised Arrivals ) Bill, that would force all asylum seekers to be processed offshore.
:: WHEREAS, the women of the United States have designated August 26, the anniversary date of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, as symbol of the continued fight for equal rights: and
It was effected by the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution ( Adoption ) Act, 1979 which was approved by referendum on 5 July 1979 and signed into law on the 3 August 1979 of the same year.
It was effected by the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1979 which was approved by referendum on 5 July 1979 and signed into law on the 3 August of the same year.
It was effected by the Ninth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1984, which was approved by referendum on 14 June 1984 and signed into law on the 2 August of the same year.
Amendment and 12
On July 12, 1909, the resolution proposing the Sixteenth Amendment was passed by the Sixty-first Congress, and was submitted to the state legislatures.
In England, Scotland and Wales, protection of monuments can also be given by another process, additional to or separate from scheduling, taking the monument into state ownership or placing it under guardianship, classifying it as a Guardianship Monument under the terms of Section 12 of the 1979 Act ( as amended by the National Heritage Act 1983 in England, and by the Historic Environment ( Amendment ) ( Scotland ) Act 2011 ( reference below )) ( e. g. St Rule's Church in St Andrews ).
The 48 votes in support of the cloture motion were 12 votes short of the 60-vote supermajority ( three-fifths ) needed to end debate and force a vote on the Amendment itself.
The 48 votes in support of the cloture motion were 12 votes short of the 60-vote supermajority ( three-fifths ) needed to end debate and force a vote on the Amendment itself.
During the 1994 campaign, he had signed the Contract with America, which called for a Constitutional Amendment to limit congressional terms to 12 years.
* Constitution ( Amendment No. 10 ) Act ( 12 July 1928 ): This amendment removed a number of provisions for direct democracy from the constitution such as the right of the Senate to force a referendum on certain bills.
* Constitution ( Amendment No. 7 ) Act ( 30 October 1928 ): This amendment reduced the term of office of senators from 12 years to 9 years.
* Constitution ( Amendment No. 12 ) Act ( 24 March 1930 ): This amendment altered provisions relating to the Committee of Privileges that had authority to resolves disputes between the two Houses of the Oireachtas over the definition of a money bill.
It was effected by the Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1996, which was approved by referendum on 28 November 1996 and signed into law on the 12 December of the same year.
* Sixteenth Amendment ( 12 December 1996 ): Allowed a court to refuse someone bail if it suspected a person would commit a serious criminal offence while at liberty.
* The Family Proceedings Fees ( Amendment ) Order 2003 Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 645 ( L. 12 )
The American Civil War did not begin until April 12, 1861 and slavery was not completely abolished until 1865 after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
The Constitution ( Amendment No. 10 ) Act, passed on 12 July 1928, repealed Article 47 in its entirety, along with Article 48 which provided for an initiative process.
*" Whether surveillance of the interior of a partially covered greenhouse in a residential backyard from the vantage point of a helicopter located above the greenhouse constitutes a ' search ' for which a warrant is required under the Fourth Amendment and Article I, 12 of the Florida Constitution.
* The proposed Equal Rights Amendment was approved by the United States Senate, 84 – 8, after passing the House on October 12, 354 – 23, and sent to the states to consider ratification.
Lyman Trumbull ( October 12, 1813 – June 25, 1896 ) was a United States Senator from Illinois during the American Civil War, and co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Tenth Amendment: The Tenth Amendment Act was enacted on 12 June 1990.
** October 12, 1973: Gerald Ford is nominated as Vice President under the 25th Amendment.
* July 12, 1909 – Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by Congress and submitted to the states for ratification.
* CFAC. org-' Dow Jones & Co., Inc. v. California Independent System Operator Corporation Board of Governors ; Case No. 01 CS 00141 ' Neil L. Shapiro, California First Amendment Coalition ( February 12, 2001 )
In appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the statute on February 12, 2008 by a vote of 2-1, holding that " the statute has provisions that violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution.
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