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.

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

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

In 2003, together with fellow Roman Catholic MP Edward Leigh, Widdecombe proposed an amendment opposing repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local governments.

The intent of this amendment is to enhance and add functionality to the 802. 15. 4-2006 MAC to a ) better support the industrial markets and b ) permit compatibility with modifications being proposed within the Chinese WPAN.

To Madison's deep disappointment, they excluded a proposed amendment that guaranteed national sovereignty over the states.

* 1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law.

Later, ( Hirst, 2003, p. 427 ) a promised Charter amendment based on Fatah doctrine " that all Jews < nowiki > date restriction </ nowiki >... were to be entitled to Palestinian citizenship " failed due to doctrinal quarrels over the meaning of the precise nature of the proposed Democratic State.

Such functions include the elaboration of laws proposed by the executive (" the Government "), by one of the chambers, by an autonomous community, or through popular initiative ; and the approval or amendment of the nation's budget proposed by the prime minister.

After a successful signature gathering, the federal council may create a counterproposal to the proposed amendment and put it to vote on the same day as the original proposal.

When an amendment to similar effect was proposed at Westminster by John Gretton, the British government duly voted it down.

In the case of proposed Quebec separation from Canada the Supreme Court of Canada in 1998 ruled that only both a clear majority of the province and a constitutional amendment confirmed by all participants in the Canadian federation could allow secession.

Nonetheless in Hollingsworth v. Virginia ( 1798 ), the Supreme Court held that it is not necessary to place constitutional amendments before the President for signature and, by the same logic, the President is powerless to veto a proposed constitutional amendment.

After being officially proposed, a constitutional amendment must then be ratified by the legislatures of, or by conventions in, at least three-fourths of the states.

Although a proposed amendment is effective after three-fourths of the states ratify it, states have, in many instances, ratified an amendment that has already become law, often for symbolic reasons.

We do not find anything in the article which suggests that an amendment once proposed is to be open to ratification for all time, or that ratification in some of the states may be separated from that in others by many years and yet be effective.

To avoid this controversy with the 1978 constitutional amendment proposed to grant congressional representation to the residents of Washington, D. C., Congress returned to the habit of placing the deadline within the actual text of the amendment itself.

James Madison changed " ought " to " shall ", when he proposed the amendment to Congress in 1789.

The Congress proposed the Twelfth Amendment on December 9, 1803, and the following states ratified the amendment:

This proposed amendment would have forbidden the adoption of any constitutional amendment that would have abolished or restricted slavery, or permitted the Congress to do so.

On June 16, 1909, President William Howard Taft, in an address to Congress, proposed a 2 % federal income tax on corporations by way of an excise tax and a constitutional amendment to allow the previously enacted income tax.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to-man to the audience, to tell them who he was, what he had done in Macon and Birmingham, and what he proposed to do here.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

The work program, as it was originally proposed, was to take five years to complete.

Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

He proposed a fresh theory of alkalis which later was accepted in chemical practices.

It was proposed that aerated lagoons be used to eliminate the problem at the existing oxidation ponds and to provide the necessary treatment for the additional development.

Among the proposed etymologies is the Hurrian and Hittite divinity, Aplu, who was widely invoked during the " plague years ".

This type served certain religious needs and was first proposed for what was previously thought to be depictions of Apollo.

The working principle of a yupana is unknown, but in 2001 an explanation of the mathematical basis of these instruments was proposed by Italian mathematician Nicolino De Pasquale.

A third concept was proposed in 1923 by Gilbert N. Lewis which includes reactions with acid-base characteristics that do not involve a proton transfer.

An alternative classification, though one with much less currency among Altaicists, was proposed by John C. Street ( 1962 ), according to which Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic forms one grouping and Korean-Japanese-Ainu another, the two being linked in a common family that Street designated as " North Asiatic ".

The group of elements is more diverse than the lanthanides and therefore it was not until 1945 that Glenn T. Seaborg proposed the most significant change to Mendeleev's periodic table, by introducing the actinides.

The concept of an atom as an indivisible component of matter was first proposed by early Indian and Greek philosophers.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

This request was immediately approved in a meeting presided by Carlos Bowers, who had proposed the name " Alumni " to the original football team 50 years before.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

In our current understanding of physics, the Bohr model is called a semi-classical model because of its quantization of angular momentum, not primarily because of its relationship with electron wavelength, which appeared in hindsight a dozen years after the Bohr model was proposed.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.