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.

Harding was not even present for the vote on the women's suffrage amendment, though he " paired " his vote with another member, in effect supporting it.

Representative Carl Elliott of Alabama later claimed, " Smith didn't give a damn about women's rights ... he was trying to knock off votes either then or down the line because there was always a hard core of men who didn't favor women's rights ," and the Congressional Record records that Smith was greeted by laughter when he introduced the amendment.

The NWSA worked to secure women's enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment.

Following Congressional passage of the amendment Friedan advocated for ratification of the amendment in the states and supported other women's rights reforms.

Like AWSA and NWSA before it, the NAWSA pushed for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's voting rights, and was instrumental in winning the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anthony and an outspoken few were unwilling to yield to the political situation which appeared to Stone and a majority of other activists to favor passage of the amendment for black men's voting rights but not passage of women's voting rights.

Anthony and Stanton worked behind Stone's back to create the splinter group NWSA, formed to put pressure on the federal government to adopt a woman suffrage amendment, but which also pushed for a wider scope of women's rights, including easier divorce laws.

Duniway ( seated ) with Governor Oswald West, signing the women's suffrage amendment

Her persistence paid off in 1912 when Oregon became the seventh state in the U. S. to pass a women's suffrage amendment.

Before 1957, Tōkyō ’ s red-light districts had flourished as legally-licensed centers for sex workers but, armed with a new constitution and an Equal Rights amendment, post-occupation Japanese women's Christian groups, etc., successfully lobbied the Diet to pass the Prostitution Prevention Law in 1956.

In the spring of 1917, shortly after Woodrow Wilson had been inaugurated for his second term as President and war with Germany had been declared, women from the National Woman's Party ( founded in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns ) began picketing the White House and the Capitol in support of an amendment that would guarantee women's suffrage.

The Sweetwater County Board of County Commissioners appointed Morris as justice of the peace after the previous justice, R. S. Barr, resigned in protest of Wyoming Territory's passage of the women's suffrage amendment in December 1869.

Morris ' momentous appointment followed the resignation of Justice R. S. Barr, who quit in protest of the territorial legislature's passage of the women's suffrage amendment in December 1869.

His New York Times obituary says, " A strong advocate for women's rights, Mr. Chassler started an unusual effort in 1976 that led to the simultaneous publication of articles about the proposed equal rights amendment in 36 women's magazines.

On February 6, 1885, he delivered a noted speech arguing in favor of an amendment to the U. S. Constitution granting women's suffrage.

In contrast to other organizations, such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which focused on lobbying individual states ( and from which the NWP split ), the NWP put its priority on the passage of a constitutional amendment ensuring women's suffrage.

He also supported women's suffrage and a national prohibition amendment.

The limited membership of the NWSA was narrowly focused on gaining a federal amendment for women's suffrage, whereas the AWSA, with ten times as many members, worked to gain suffrage on a state-by-state level as a necessary precursor to federal suffrage.

In keeping with the general reform mood of the latter 1860s and 1870s, the issue first received serious consideration when both houses of the General Assembly passed a women's suffrage amendment in 1870.

A constitutional law and one amendment were also passed in the fourteenth legislature ( 2001 – 2006 ), namely, the repealing of disposition XIII insofar as it limited the civil rights of the male descendants of the House of Savoy ; and a new provision intended to encourage women's participation in politics.