An amendment, presumably designed to deal with the problems of newly freed slaves, became a `` laissez-faire '' limitation upon state economic policy.

Passage of the proposed amendment became part of the Republican / Unionist platform in the election of 1864.

Those who opposed the amendment in North America became known as the " Unamended fellowship " and allowed the teaching that God either could not or would not raise those who had no covenant relationship with him.

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.

Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was able to fulfill her father's dream by the 42nd amendment ( 1976 ) of the Indian constitution by which India officially became " socialist " and " secular ".

The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Lyman Trumbull ( Republican, Illinois ), became involved in merging different proposals for an amendment.

The Santorum Amendment was a failed proposed amendment to the 2001 education funding bill ( which became known as the No Child Left Behind Act ), proposed by Republican Rick Santorum ( who was at that time the United States Senator for Pennsylvania ), which promoted the teaching of intelligent design while questioning the academic standing of evolution in U. S. public schools.

The case led to the first police raid in the United States on an animal laboratory, triggered an amendment in 1985 to the United States Animal Welfare Act, and became the first animal-testing case to be appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which upheld a Louisiana State Court ruling that denied PETA's request for custody of the monkeys.

Presented in the United States House of Representatives by Representative James Madison of Virginia, this amendment was the second of the twelve Constitutional amendments originally submitted to the state legislatures for ratification by the 1st Congress on September 25, 1789, the last ten of which became the United States Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791.

Before the approval by voters of a 2004 charter amendment, the position of Mayor was called " Orange County Chairman ", which became an elected position in 1990.

It had been protected by the 1st amendment until that time, when it became illegal for US citizens to swear allegiance to Germany.

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.

This law, together with the 1854 amendment, became the foundation of future legislation in England and the model for other common law countries.

Before this amendment was passed, a Senate President who became governor or acting governor as a result of a permanent vacancy in the Office of Governor was even more powerful than an elected governor, as he simultaneously served as president of the New Jersey Senate, thus having a major hand in one half of the legislative process and being the executive process.

It moved to its second reading on 9 June, and the Committee stage on 11 June, where it became fraught in controversy after a young Liberal named Thomas Agar-Robartes proposed an amendment excluding four of the Ulster counties ( Londonderry, Down, Antrim & Armagh ) from the Irish Parliament.

In the end no amendment to the Army Act was offered, though ; many backbenchers and party loyalists became agitated by the scheme and wrote to him that it was unacceptable – Ian Malcolm, a fanatical Ulster supporter, told Law that amending the Army Act would drive him out of the Party.

He became a Congressman and was on the Harbors and Rivers Committee, where he was instrumental in the successful amendment that created and added levees to the charter of the commission.

In 2008, House Bill 995, an amendment to the Florida Condominium Act modeled on the Illinois state legislation, became law.

North Carolina already prohibited same-sex marriages by statute, and became the final state in the South to do so by constitutional amendment.

A 1992 amendment to the state constitution removed the provision under which the lieutenant governor became acting governor when the sitting governor was out of the state.

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

In a 1910 letter published by the New York Times, Root supported the proposed income tax amendment, which became the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution:

After an amendment of the Basic Law in 1955, West Germany became a member of NATO.

And finally, upon the death of President Wilhelm Pieck on 7 September 1960, a constitutional amendment of 12 September 1960 replaced the office of President with the Council of State ( Staatsrat der DDR ); Walter Ulbricht became its first chairman.

It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.

The third amended the enabling act for creation of the Lamar county Hospital District, for which a special constitutional amendment previously was adopted.

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

By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.

The amendment was submitted to the states for ratification by Congressional joint resolution, and therefore was not subject to Presidential veto, though Johnson vigorously opposed it, again because so many southern states were not represented in the Congress.

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.

His bill was passed quickly by the House of Commons but was stalled by the Senate, which returned the bill to the Commons with the recommendation that the holiday be renamed The National Holiday of Canada, an amendment that effectively killed the bill.

The term was first used in a 1994 book by Joseph Jenkins that advocates the use of this organic soil amendment.

He also signed the Worker's Compensation Act of 1910, which required a compulsory, employer-paid plan of compensation for workers injured in hazardous industries and a voluntary system for other workers ; after the New York Court of Appeals ruled the law unconstitutional in 1911, a popular referendum was held that successfully made the law an amendment in the New York Constitution.

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

Some contend that the amendment devastated American science, since ARPA / DARPA was a major funding source for basic science projects of the time ; the National Science Foundation never made up the difference as expected.

A protocol concerning Ethiopian access to Port Sudan was signed between the two countries 5 March 2000 in Khartoum, and this protocol and its subsequent amendment were ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 3 July 2003.

#* Quinisext Council, also called Council in Trullo ( 692 ) addressed matters of discipline ( in amendment to the 5th and 6th councils ). The Ecumenical status of this council was repudiated by the western churches.

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which was an amendment to the larger and unrelated SAFE Port Act, included " carve out " language that clarified the legality of fantasy sports.

As these powers, which correspond to US executive orders, affect constitutional basic rights, the law was enacted in the same manner as a constitutional amendment.

On 13 July 1870, the section on infallibility was voted on: 451 voted simply in favour ( placet ), 88 against ( non placet ), and 62 in favour but on condition of some amendment ( placet iuxta modum ).

A constitutional amendment to this end was defeated as part of a May 1999 plebiscite, but discussions between the executive and legislative branches continue on how to achieve this objective.

IEEE 802. 15. 3a was an attempt to provide a higher speed UWB PHY enhancement amendment to IEEE 802. 15. 3 for applications which involve imaging and multimedia.

IEEE 802. 15. 3b-2005 amendment was released on May 5, 2006.

The IEEE 802. 15 Task Group 4d was chartered to define an amendment to the existing standard 802. 15. 4-2006.

The IEEE has approved the amendment and it was published in October 2009.

Jefferson would have preferred to have a constitutional amendment authorizing the purchase, but did not have time nor was he required to do so.