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.

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.

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.

Pelham pointed out that Georgia voters last November rejected a constitutional amendment to allow legislators to vote on pay raises for future Legislature sessions.

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.

In September 2000 the Constitutional Court rejected an argument by former president Arias that a 1969 constitutional amendment banning presidential reelection be rescinded.

The validity of a ratification that a state first grants and then later purports to rescind, and of the subsequent ratification of an amendment which that state previously rejected and then later assented to, was addressed by Congress in 1868 when Secretary of State William H. Seward issued a proclamation that what we know today as the Fourteenth Amendment was properly ratified and a part of the Constitution.

While Ohio and New Jersey purported to withdraw their earlier ratifications, three other states that had previously rejected the amendment then reversed themselves and proceeded to ratify it.

It would therefore appear that states may not undo prior ratifications of amendments, although they may ratify an amendment which they had previously rejected.

In addition, the following states rejected the amendment:

# Arkansas ( April 22, 1911 ), after having previously rejected the amendment

The legislatures of the following states rejected the amendment without ever subsequently ratifying it:

In Leser v. Garnett ( 1922 ), the Supreme Court rejected claims that the amendment was unconstitutionally adopted.

The following states rejected the amendment:

According to the Constitution of Singapore, a referendum can be held in a few circumstances, including situations when a constitutional amendment passed by the Parliament is rejected by the President, or when the nation's sovereignty needs to be decided ( i. e. merger or incorporation into other countries ).

The Senate passed the bill with two amendments by a vote of 36-35, and the House approved the Senate's first amendment by voice vote but rejected the second amendment ; the Senate receded that amendment by voice vote.

Voters in the following state rejected holding a convention to consider the amendment:

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 ".

When the Assembly rejected this amendment, Rhee ordered a mass arrest of opposition politicians and then passed the desired amendment in July 1952.

But the campaign was defeated by a vote in Congress that rejected an amendment calling direct elections for next year, and, in 1985, a civilian president, Tancredo Neves, was elected by the same indirect procedure, with Lula's support.

But on November 4, 2008, voters overwhelmingly rejected the council's proposed change, defeating the amendment by a more than two-to-one margin.

On October 13, 1998, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal, allowing the Sixth Circuit decision and the city amendment to stand.

She has voted in favor of lifting the ban on privately funded abortions at U. S. military facilities overseas ( HA 209, rejected ), in favor of an amendment that would repeal a provision that forbids service women and dependents from getting an abortion in overseas military hospitals ( HA 722, rejected ), in favor of stripping the prohibition of funding for organizations working overseas that uses its own funds to provide abortion services or engage in advocacy related to abortion services ( HA 997, rejected ).