This amendment bars the U. S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.

The Ninth Amendment explicitly bars denial of unenumerated rights if the denial is based on the enumeration of certain rights in the Constitution, but this amendment does not explicitly bar denial of unenumerated rights if the denial is based on the enumeration of certain powers in the Constitution.

Constitutional law has provided substantive protection which bars recovery against a first amendment defense except upon clear and convincing evidence that there has been deliberate or reckless falsehood.

Article 139 bars any constitutional amendment that would change " the form of the Republic ," thus effectively barring any attempt to restore the monarchy.

Though dance bars were banned in the Maharashtra state, in August 2005, with the passing of the Police ( amendment ) Bill, 2005, subsequently government enforced shutting down of dance bars.

While the wording of this amendment specifically bars Congress from restricting freedom of religion, current precedent holds that this amendment and the rest of the United States Bill of Rights are binding on the states by the liberty clause of the 14th Amendment.

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 ".

Another amendment allowed anyone to own and trade in copies of books, undermining the Stationers.

When Sweeney had first been elected of the AFL-CIO in 1995, he had proposed a constitutional amendment which would bar anyone 70 years of age or older from seeking executive office.

Furthermore, Canadian convention prohibits anyone other than a Minister from proposing a bill or an amendment to a bill that would require the government to spend money (" money bill ").

However other provisions of the constitution state that anyone entitled to vote in Dáil elections is also entitled to participate in the election of the President and in referendums, so the amendment affected these votes as well.

In April 2008 he proposed an amendment to the Criminal Code called " Michelle's Law " that would make it more difficult for anyone accused of committing a personal injury to get bail.

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.

Hatch's amendment would allow anyone who has been a US citizen for twenty years to seek these offices.

In the end, the Federal Council resolved matters itself by passing a constitutional amendment, informally labelled Lex Kampl ( Latin for " Kampl's law "), allowing the Council to, by a two-thirds vote, replace anyone scheduled to take over the rotating presidency with a different member of the same party.

The concessions included a constitutional amendment repealing any state law that interfered with enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, passage of amendments to the Fugitive Slave Act ensuring that any state that would not return a fugitive slave or obstructed a slave's return would compensate the owner of the slave, passage of a law requiring extradition of anyone indicted by a grand jury for enticing the escape of a slave, passage of an amendment to the constitution guaranteeing slavery in all current and future territories south of 36 degrees north latitude, passage of an amendment to the constitution guaranteeing all states the right of using the Mississippi River, and provide protection for southern states in the U. S. Senate from oppressive slavery legislation.

Such a determination would " create an infinitely elastic loophole " in which anyone could circumvent the 15th amendment by simply claiming that the purposes of any such election was " limited.

Since the Connally amendment has the effect of giving the same right to the other party to a dispute with the United States, it also prevents us from using the court effectively.

She also was the original GOP national committeewoman from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's suffrage amendment.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

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

No monetary payment was made from the US to the UK as part of this agreement or any subsequent amendment.

The administrative capital was moved from Bolama to Bissau in 1941, and in 1952, by constitutional amendment, the colony of Portuguese Guinea became an overseas province of Portugal.

While some in the legal sector advocated that the National People's Congress ( NPC ) should be asked to amend the part of the Basic Law to redress the problem, the HKSAR Government decided to seek an interpretation to, rather than an amendment of, the relevant Basic Law provisions from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ( NPCSC ).

In 2001, Senator Harry Reid sponsored an amendment to strip Hoover's name from the building.

In its judgment, the U. S. Supreme Court held that it lacked jurisdiction with respect to Germany's complaint against Arizona due to the eleventh amendment of the U. S. constitution, which prohibits federal courts from hearing lawsuits of foreign states against a U. S. state.

The events that trigger the sixth amendment safeguards under Massiah are ( 1 ) the commencement of adversarial criminal proceedings and ( 2 ) deliberate elicitation of information from the defendant by governmental agents.

On April 16, 1991, the parliament adopted a constitutional amendment removing " Socialist " from the official name of the country, and on June 7 of the same year, the new name, Republic of Macedonia, was officially established.

In 1985, the Knesset passed an amendment to Israel's Basic Law, barring " racist " candidates from election.

Somoza had also introduced a constitutional amendment that would prevent family members from succeeding him.

Harry S. Truman, who was president when the amendment was adopted, and so by the amendment's provisions exempt from its limitation, also briefly sought a third ( a second full ) term before withdrawing from the 1952 election.

In July, 2010, by a vote of 373 to 323, the General Assembly voted to propose to the presbyteries for ratification a constitutional amendment to remove from the Book of Order section G-6. 0106. b. which included this explicit requirement for ordination: “ Among these standards is the requirement to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman ( W-4. 9001 ), or chastity in singleness .” This proposal required ratification by a majority of the 173 presbyteries within 12 months of the General Assembly ’ s adjournment.

The Senate approved an amendment to the 1985 Defense Authorization Bill on June 13, 1985 which changed the precedence from immediately above the Good Conduct Medal to immediately above the Meritorious Service Medals.

Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property — a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.

Rhee regained control of parliament in the 1954 elections, and thereupon fraudulently pushed through an amendment to exempt himself from the eight-year term limit, and was once again re-elected in 1956.

The provision provoked a storm of controversy which within a year led Senator Hatch to propose, and Congress to pass, an amendment to delete from the statute all reference to secular humanism.

( Of course, as sovereign nations, each is free to withdraw from the arrangement, using their respective process for constitutional amendment, and no longer be united through common allegiance to the Crown.

In the case of proposed Quebec separation from Canada the Supreme Court of Canada in 1998 ruled that only both a clear majority of the province and a constitutional amendment confirmed by all participants in the Canadian federation could allow secession.

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.

Besides the Bible, children needed to read in order to “ understand ... the capital laws of this country ,” as the Massachusetts code declared, order being of the utmost importance, and children not taught to read would grow “ barbarous ” ( the 1648 amendment to the Massachusetts law and the 1650 Connecticut code, both used the word “ barbarisme ”).

After being officially proposed, a constitutional amendment must then be ratified by the legislatures of, or by conventions in, at least three-fourths of the states.

However, both versions of the amendment posed serious challenges in being ratified by three-fourths of the states.

Nevada ratified the amendment, but only after being reassured by Senator William Morris Stewart that the amendment would not preclude prohibiting the Chinese and Irish immigrants from voting.

A year later, it was ratified by the requisite number of states, with Tennessee's ratification being the final vote needed to add the amendment to the Constitution.

Changes made to the design whilst the project was being built including an amendment to the storey height and the exclusion and then re-introduction of the chauffeur's accommodation led to the costs rising to approximately 800, 000 Francs.

The impact of this amendment was to reduce the amount of silver that was being held by private citizens ( presumably as a hedge against inflation or collapse of the financial system ) and increase the amount of circulating currency.

The amendment came close to being ratified by the legislatures of enough states to become part of the U. S. Constitution, lacking the approval of only two.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

For instance, in May 1948, Richard B. Russell, Democratic Senator from Georgia, attached an amendment to the Selective Services bill then being debated in Congress.

On April 7, 2005, during the 109th Congress, United States Senator John McCain introduced an amendment to NAGPRA which ( section 108 ) would have changed the definition of " Native American " from being that which " is indigenous to the United States " to " is or was indigenous to the United States.

* Constitutional amendment initiative is a constitutionally-defined petition process of " proposed constitutional law ", which, if successful, results in its provisions being written directly into the state's constitution.

During the January 9, 2006, party leaders ' debate for the 2006 federal election, Paul Martin pledged that a Liberal government would support a constitutional amendment that would prevent section 33 from being invoked by the federal government, and challenged Conservative leader Stephen Harper to agree.

In the state of Tasmania, possession of pepper spray by unauthorized persons is illegal, under an amendment of the Police Offences Act 1935, being classified as an, " Offensive weapon ".

Williams, however, were unable to keep pace with the latest developments from Ferrari, coupled with a midseason amendment to tyre regulations that forced the Michelin-shod Williams, among others, to quickly make a new design to avoid being disqualified.

Fully automatic Paintball markers are currently classed as restricted weapons, and that is illegal for those without the correct firearms license endorsement to possess, however as of 2011 an amendment to the firearms act is being drafted which will remove their restriction.

An amendment to the Code, adopted on June 13, 1934, established the Production Code Administration ( PCA ) and required all films released on or after July 1, 1934, to obtain a certificate of approval before being released.

In December 2010, Kaufman criticized a proposed amendment to Britain's universal jurisdiction law seeking to prevent visiting Israeli officials from being arrested and indicted, claiming that such changes made a mockery of the British legal system.

* June 13-An amendment to the Production Code establishes the Production Code Administration, and requires all films to obtain a certificate of approval before being released.

" Wyden offered an amendment to reform the " business-records provision " of the Patriot Act, which he views as being used abusive and secret way.

In 1930, Senator Bronson Cutting proposed an amendment to the Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act, which was then being debated, ending the practice of having U. S. Customs censor allegedly obscene books imported to U. S. shores.