Thus, the amendment clarified Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution, which gave diversity jurisdiction to the judiciary to hear cases " between a state and citizens of another state.

In 1999, the NPC adopted an amendment to the Chinese Constitution, incorporating both concepts in Article 5.

In an attempt to obtain international acceptance for the legal recognition of traditional use of coca in their respective countries, Peru and Bolivia successfully led an amendment, paragraph 2 of Article 14 into the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, stipulating that measures to eradicate illicit cultivation and to eliminate illicit demand “ should take due account of traditional licit use, where there is historic evidence of such use .” Bolivia also made a formal reservation to the 1988 Convention, which required countries to adopt measures to establish the use, consumption, possession, purchase or cultivation of the coca leaf for personal consumption as a criminal offence.

Article 1 of the Basic Law ( in German legal shorthand GG, for Grundgesetz ), which establishes this principle that " human dignity is inviolable " and that human rights are directly applicable law, as well as the general principles of the state in Article 20 GG, which guarantees democracy, republicanism, social responsibility, federalism, and the right of resistance should anybody undertake to abolish this order, remain under the guarantee of perpetuity stated in Article 79 Paragraph 3, i. e., those two cannot be changed even if the normal amendment process is followed.

Article 79 states the Basic Law may be amended by an absolute two-thirds majority of the Bundestag along with a simple two-thirds majority of the Bundesrat, excluding amendment of those areas defined by the eternity clause.

Thus the 1946 constitution was adopted as an amendment to the Meiji Constitution in accordance with the provisions of Article 73 of that document.

The House of Representatives has the right of amendment ; government too may amend ( Article 84 ).

The Senate only can pass or reject laws in full ( Article 85 ), defended by the responsible minister or by members of the House of Representatives having taken the initiative to propose the law ; however, in practice it can send the proposal back asking for a novelle to be passed by the House of Representatives, in fact an amendment of law.

The amendment also made further changes to the dates mentioned in Article 4.

" Establishing a national initiative procedure would likely require an amendment to the Constitution, which would under Article V require two-thirds of both houses of Congress or the application of two-thirds of the state legislatures to propose, and three-fourths of all state legislatures ( or conventions in three-fourths of the states ) to ratify.

Similarly, both Section 2 of the Act and Article 50 of the Constitution provided that no constitutional amendment would stand so far as it violated the terms of the Treaty.

The Diet of Japan is currently deliberating an amendment to the Constitution that would repeal Article Nine, and allow Japan to once again have projective military capacity.

* The 1983 Malaysian constitutional crisis saw Prime Minister Mahathir pushing forward an amendment of Article 66 of the Federal Constitution, which set the time limit of the Agong to veto a law within 30 days.

The provisions of Article 174 of the Constitution previous method of amendment, via the National Assembly of the Republic of China shall not apply.

The adoption of an amendment to Article 8 at the Review Conference of the Rome Statute in Kampala makes the use of expanding bullets in non-international armed conflict a war crime.

* The process of amendment became easier ( Article V Section 1 ( 1 )), requiring only two-thirds of the states rather than three-fourths.

Measure 5, an amendment to the Oregon Constitution ( Article XI, Section 11 ), established limits on Oregon's property taxes on real estate.

* The final article of the Constitution of Italy ( Article 139, Section 2, Title 6 of Part 2 ) holds the " form of Republic " above amendment.

* Article 4 of Part 1 of the Constitution of Turkey states that the "... provision of Article 1 of the Constitution establishing the form of the state as a Republic, the provisions in Article 2 on the characteristics of the Republic, and the provision of Article 3 shall not be amended, nor shall their amendment be proposed.

* Protocol I, an amendment to the Geneva Conventions

The amendment was rejected by the government, however, with the First Lord of the Treasury, Arthur Balfour, believing it would be " an anomaly which, I think, would be not unnaturally resented by other districts which are as large in point of population as Westminster, although doubtless not so rich in historical associations ".

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.

* His chief counsel on the matter, Fred F. Fielding, has been quoted as saying, " I personally know he ( Reagan ) did intend to invoke the amendment, and he conveyed that to all of his staff, and it was conveyed to the VP as well as the President of the Senate.

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

Title X of the Constitution establishes that the approval of a new constitution or the approval of any constitutional amendment affecting the Preliminary Title, or Section I of Chapter II of Title I ( on Fundamental Rights and Public Liberties ) or Title II ( on the Crown ), the so-called " protected provisions ", are subject to a special process that requires ( 1 ) that two-thirds of each House approve the amendment, ( 2 ) that elections are called immediately thereafter, ( 3 ) that two-thirds of each new House approves the amendment, and ( 4 ) that the amendment is approved by the people in a referendum.

As a result, if an award is to be made, and I believe it should be, it is necessary to amend the existing statute that is currently being processed through the Department .” Rep. Jim Slattery, who drafted the House version of the 1989 amendment to 10 USC § 1128, explained to the House Committee on Armed Services that the amendment was intended to remedy “ a quirk in the law ” that required active armed conflict against an enemy state.

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.

The proposed amendment was intended to expand upon Article I, Section 9 and Section 10 of the Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from issuing titles of nobility or honor.

Article I, section 2, clause 3 and the fourteenth amendment section 2 address the handling of " Indians not taxed " in the apportionment of the seats of the House of Representatives according to population and in so doing suggest that Indians need not be taxed.

" " 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.

Predicting in an August 8, 2005 interview with radio host Don Imus that other employees of the New York Times would soon be subpoenaed by Fitzgerald, James Carville speculated that it was " going to be very interesting to see whether problem is a first amendment — i. e., " I want to protect a source ", or a fifth amendment — " I was out spreading this stuff, too "".

Under these circumstances, the absence of a presidential signature does not work a veto, but implies assent under the procedures laid out in Article I, even assuming they apply to the amendment process of Article V.

While the Constitution always granted Congress the authority to meet on a different day without the need to pass an amendment, § 2 of the Twentieth Amendment " tidied up " the constitutional text by paralleling the original provision requiring that the Congress meet at least once a year in December, and changing it to January 3 ( unless changed by law ).

From time to time proposals have been made to separate the church from the state, which would imply an amendment of § 2 of the constitution.

Sponsored by Representative Les Aspin, the bill added the fourth paragraph to Title 10 § 1128 and authorized the POW Medal for those captured “ by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .” This amendment was the result of congressional recognition of multiple groups of individuals who were not originally authorized to receive the medal after Department of Defense review, such as the < i > USS Pueblo </ i > crew detained in North Korea in 1968, the US Navy and US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Russia during World War II, the US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Switzerland during World War II, US Marine Corps Col. William R. Higgins who was kidnapped in 1988 and executed by Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists, and the U. S. Marines from the U. S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran who were held hostage by terrorists from 1979 – 1981 in the Iran Hostage Crisis.

Pueblo was attacked .” According to Sen. Alan Cranston, who drafted the Senate version of the 1989 amendment to 10 USC § 1128, “ The Department of Defense has interpreted that provision Law 99-145, which is codified at section 1128 of title 10, as not permitting the award of POW Medal to individuals who were taken and held as prisoner in situations other than the classical prisoner-of-war situation during armed conflict.

This clarification is intended to cover the individuals taken prisoner as a result of the USS Pueblo seizure, as well as any similar occurrence that the Service Secretary concerned deems comparable to the circumstances under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during a war or conflict .” This amendment to the POW Medal statute now appears at 10 USC § 1128 ( a )( 4 ).

" What exactly qualifies as comparable circumstances of captivity and treatment was never defined in Title 10, although the 38 USC § 101 ( 32 ) Veterans Affairs POW Status statute that served as the source of the ' comparability clause ' for the 1989 amendment to Title 10 contains similar language requiring " circumstances which the Secretary finds to have been comparable to the circumstances under which persons have generally been forcibly detained or interned by enemy governments during periods of war.

State Bill 955, an amendment to Texas Government Code § 431. 134, was passed by the Texas Legislature and signed by Governor Perry on June 17, 2005 and was effective on September 1, 2005.

Chief Justice Warren's decision for the Court rejected O ' Brien's argument that the 1965 amendment to § 462 ( b )( 3 ) was only passed to stifle the speech of anti-war protesters.

Though they are now listed separately in § 161. 114 of the Minnesota Statutes, the definitions are legally considered to be part of the constitution, and cannot be altered or removed without an amendment.

Effective date of Notice 2012-22 – December 31, 2013 ; if § 179D is extended beyond December 31, 2013, also effective ( except as otherwise provided in an amendment of § 179D or the guidance thereunder ) during the period of the extension