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.

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.

On January 11, 1864, Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri submitted a joint resolution for a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.

On February 8 of that year, another Republican, Senator Charles Sumner ( Radical Republican, Massachusetts ), submitted a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery as well as guarantee equality.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the amendment and first introduced it in 1878 ; it was forty-one years later, in 1919, when the Congress submitted the amendment to the states for ratification.

An amendment having that purpose could be submitted by Congress as provided by the Constitution.

This amendment was ratified in 1992, more than 202 years after Congress submitted it to the states for ratification.

Within four months after the Congress submitted it to the states, the amendment was ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, the shortest time in which any proposed amendment has received the number of ratifications needed for adoption.

In 1816, more than a quarter century after the Congress had officially submitted the amendment ( and eleven others ) to the state legislatures for consideration, the Massachusetts General Court expressed its desire for an amendment to the Constitution worded almost exactly as it was offered by Congress in 1789.

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.

Under the U. S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Coleman v. Miller,, any proposed amendment which has been submitted to the states for ratification and does not specify a ratification deadline may be ratified by the states at any time.

After an amendment has been approved by parliament, a general election must be held ; the new parliament must then approve the amendment again before it is finally submitted to a referendum.

On the other hand, an amendment to the constitution of the US state of Massachusetts must first be endorsed by a special majority in the legislature during two consecutive terms, and is then submitted to a referendum.

By contrast, in the United States a proposed amendment originates as a special joint resolution of Congress that is not submitted to the President for his assent.

The Nigeria's 1963 Republican Constitution which was an amendment of the 1960 Independent Constitution has the following words: “ Nnamdi Azikiwe shall be deemed to have been elected President and Commander in-Chief of the Armed Forces ,” as submitted by then Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa who posited that, “ Nigeria can never adequately reward Dr. Azikiwe ” for his nationalism.

When it was about to be submitted to the New South Wales assembly Reid on the address-in-reply moved an amendment hostile to the bill.

Miller was the only Democrat to vote against an amendment to that same bill submitted by Tom Harkin ( D-Iowa ) to scale back portions of that tax cut in order to spend more on education and debt reduction.

In 2003 he submitted an amendment to reduce the tax cut to $ 350 billion.

As required by the amendment, the law will be submitted to the Supreme Constitutional Court to opine on its constitutionality.

" The House version of this amendment was submitted on June 21, by Congressman Robert J. Lagomarsino.

This stipulated that to become law a proposed amendment had first to be submitted to the Diet by the Emperor, by means of an imperial order or rescript.

After the Congress passed it, the amendment was submitted to the state legislatures for ratification.