While details are still to be worked out, Ratcliff said he expects to tell home folks in Dallas why he thinks Berry's proposed constitutional amendment should be rejected.

He said specifically, " the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms ," thus embracing the position that the second amendment expresses an individual, not collective, right.

They said that the amendment creates the mis-perception that evolution is not fully accepted in the scientific community, and thus weakens science curricula.

In 1996, the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service issued a report that said, " There is no precedent for Congress promulgating an amendment based on state ratifications adopted after a ratification deadline has expired.

Claiming that his remarks were based on " intelligence ," Chen also said Soong promised during the meeting to oppose a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow for popular referendums on future constitutional amendments, in exchange for Beijing's approval for Soong to visit China.

Proponents of the amendment said that the federal timber program in Tongass is a dead loss for taxpayers, costing some $ 30 million annually, and noted that the Forest Service faces an estimated $ 900 million road maintenance backlog in the forest.

Representative Steve Chabot, an Ohio Republican who sponsored the amendment, said " I am not opposed to logging when it's done on the timber company's dime ... But in this case, they are using the American taxpayer to subsidize these 200 jobs at the tune of $ 200, 000 per job.

On January 28, 2009, the Liberals agreed to support the Conservative budget with an amendment, ending the possibility of the coalition, so Layton said " Today we have learned that you can't trust Mr. Ignatieff to oppose Mr. Harper.

This rule was added only in a 1999 amendment, prior to which the lieutenant governor only acted as governor, except during the time of the 1861 constitution, which said that the lieutenant governor would be " styled Governor of the State of Texas " in case of vacancy.

One lobbyist said, " I've had members pull me aside and ask me to talk to another member of Congress about a bill or amendment, but I've never been asked to work on a bill — at least like they are asking us to whip bills now.

This put Law in a delicate situation, since he had previously said that he would support a system allowing each county to remain " outside the Irish Parliament ", at the same time saying that he would not support any amendment that didn't have Ulster's full cooperation.

" I made each amendment into a character ", he said.

It is said that a very large part of any income tax under the amendment would be paid by citizens of New York ....

Ahern said that in March 2010 he will propose to the Cabinet a constitutional amendment deleting the constitutional prohibition on blasphemy when the children's rights amendment comes up.

The municipalities specified in the said amendment were the following: Isabela, Lamitan, Tuburan, Tipo-Tipo, Sumisip, Maluso and Lantawan, of which five ( 5 ) municipalities are now in existence.

In accepting the amendment the Lord Chancellor said that in murder cases this ancient jurisdiction had survived all these years only because it had never been exercised and he added, " if the justices ever appear to act upon the powers they possess, I shall be the first to come and remove those powers for them.

Nonetheless, Representative Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina is recorded to have said, when voting on the amendment, that " he considered the vote on this question as deciding whether or not we were to have members of the Legion of Honor in this country.

Supporters of the amendment, including People for the American Way, Florida Education Association, and Florida NAACP, focused on large classes in many urban areas of Florida which had as many as 40 students: Meek said, " the first time parents will have a chance to vote on something they've always wanted and that is smaller class sizes.

In the newspaper sting, " Moonie said he would contact Healey and offered to identify people who could put down an amendment.

Regarding this assertion in Heller that Cruikshank said the first amendment did not apply against the states, Professor David Rabban has written that the Cruikshank Court " never specified whether the First Amendment contains ' fundamental rights ' protected by the Fourteenth Amendment against state action ....”

" " I know that a mother ’ s advice is always the safest for a boy to follow ", Burn said, switching sides, and the amendment was ratified that day, August 18, 1920, officially becoming part of the Constitution when it was signed into law on August 26, 1920.

Heitkamp said she would support a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution " with exceptions " if elected.

The resolution called for the amendment to be submitted to the state legislatures and to be adopted " when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures.

Labour Peer Baron Alli, said the amendment was " ill-conceived and does nothing other than undermine the purpose of the bill ", while the gay rights group Stonewall said the amendment was " unworkable and undermined hundreds of years of family law ".

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.

Debate over the census and their contents have periodically created changes in the Statistics Act such as a 2005 amendment making the privacy restrictions of the census information expire after more than a century.

A further series of referendums took place to adapt and clarify the ' Pro-Life Amendment '; among those carried were clauses stating that the Eighth amendment could not limit a person's freedom to travel abroad nor her ' right of information ' of legal abortion services in other states ( Thirteenth and Fourteenth amendments ).

In 1975, he introduced an amendment to the Foreign Military Sales Act requiring the Defense Department to provide the U. S. Congress with information on identities of agents who negotiate arms sales for American firms.

The Federal Elections Commission, created in 1975 by an amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act has the responsibility to disclose campaign finance information, to enforce the provisions of the law such as the limits and prohibitions on contributions, and to oversee the public funding of U. S. presidential elections.

Proposition 59 ( or Senate Constitutional Amendment 1 ) was an amendment of the Constitution of California that introduced freedom of information or " sunshine " provisions.

* Background Briefing on Australian Referendum – general, includes information on social services amendment

* Application for award ( expired, for information only, also printed before the 1996 amendment )

The cost of data breaches " varies widely, ranging from $ 90 to $ 50, 000 ( under HIPAA's new HITECH amendment, that came about through the American Recovery and Revitalization act of 2009 ), as per customer record, depending on whether the breach is “ low-profile ” or “ high-profile ” and the company is in a non-regulated or highly regulated area, such as banking or medical institutions .” There is also a major backlash from the consumer if there is a data breach in a company that is supposed to be trusted to protect their private information.

This amendment may also introduce a new offence of ( making information available with intent ) i. e. publicly disclosing a password for someone's phone or computer so that others can access it illegally.

The IRB / IEC should obtain trial protocol ( s )/ amendment ( s ), written informed consent form ( s ) and consent form updates the investigator proposes for use in the trial, subject recruitment procedures ( e. g., advertisements ), written information to be provided to subjects, investigator's brochure, available safety information, information about payments and compensation available to subjects, the investigator's current curriculum vitae and / or other documentation evidencing qualifications, and any other documents the IRB / IEC may need to fulfill its responsibilities.

Supporters of the amendment stated that it is aimed only at widely prohibited content such as child pornography and similar information, but the Russian Wikimedia chapter has declared that conditions for determining the content falling under this law will create a thing like the " great Chinese firewall ".

415 ( 2009 ) ( recommending a five part test that balances the first amendment right to speak anonymously with right to discover identifying information about individuals who make defamatory remarks on the Internet ).

Sen. Joe Lieberman ( ID-CT ), chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, and Sen. Tom Carper ( D-DE ), chairman of the subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government information, Federal Services and International Security, supported the amendment, and voted with committee Republicans for its adoption.

Another highly controversial provision is one that allows the FBI to make an order " requiring the production of any tangible things ( including books, records, papers, documents, and other items ) for an investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities, provided that such investigation of a United States person is not conducted solely upon the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution.

The amendment S. UP. AMDT. 1542 by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, which aimed to prohibit the use of funds by the CIA or DOD to support military activities in Nicaragua, fell.

4173, the bill that became the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Representative Maurice Hinchey ( D-NY ) proposed an amendment to the bill that would have reenacted Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 and also prohibited bank insurance activities.

During a SEC investigation Grasso invoked his fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions regarding his conduct during an NYSE investigation into possibly improper activities by Exchange specialist firms.

In November 1974 she called for the death penalty to be made available for IRA and all terrorists, moved an amendment to that effect in the House of Commons, and asked the then Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, to step up activities against the IRA.

The CIA must have a " Presidential Finding " issued by the President of the United States in order to conduct these activities under the Hughes-Ryan amendment to the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act.

The CIA must have a " Presidential Finding " issued by the President of the United States in order to conduct these activities under the Hughes-Ryan amendment to the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act.

The second amendment was adopted in Cavtat, Croatia, in 2004 ; once in force it will: allow, as appropriate, affected Parties to participate in scoping ; require reviews of compliance ; revise the Convention's Appendix I ( list of activities ); and make other minor changes.

Initially there was no obligation to issue licenses, but an amendment to the bill in Parliament means that the Director General is required to issue a license on the application of any person, providing that person is a fit person to engage in such activities and the name he applies to be licensed under is not misleading or undesirable.

Current use of the presidential finding stems from the so-called Hughes-Ryan amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974, which prohibited the expenditure of appropriated funds by or on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency for intelligence activities " unless and until the President finds that each such operation is important to the national security of the United States and reports, in a timely fashion, a description and scope of such operation to the appropriate committees of Congress " ( section 662 ).