The Constitution of Ireland provides that Ireland ( or Éire in Irish ) is the official name of the State and, if the Act had purported to change the name, it would have been unconstitutional as it was not a constitutional amendment.

The amendment also provides that a law will be passed to regulate the relevant election procedures.

The amendment to Article 76 of the constitution provides for the establishment of a “ Presidential Election Commission ” that would have complete independence, and would be charged with the supervision of the presidential election process.

* 1997-An amendment to the Constitution provides for linguistic rather than confessional ( Catholic and Protestant ) school boards in Quebec.

The Act also provides individuals with a means by which to seek access to and amendment of their records, and sets forth various agency record-keeping requirements.

The Article X of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, defining the amendment procedure, provides in the paragraph 2 that the rights and freedoms, as established in the Article II of the Constitution, may not be eliminated or diminished, and that the paragraph 2 itself may not be altered.

The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany ( Grundgesetz ) provides in its eternity clause, ( i. e., Article 79 section 3 ), that any amendment would be " inadmissible " if such amendment would provide that the Federal Republic would not consist of states ( Länder ) any more, that the Länder would no longer be entitled to participate in the federal law-making procedures, or if the " the basic principles " of Articles 1 and 20 would be affected.

The recent amendment, passed in September 2010, provides loans to small business through financial institutions.

The Due Process clause of the Fourteenth amendment provides that the government may not deprive an individual of life, liberty, or property without notice and an opportunity to be heard.

It provides that " The Governor in Council may, by order, amend any of Schedules I to VIII by adding to them or deleting from them any item or portion of an item, where the Governor in Council deems the amendment to be necessary in the public interest.

After eight referendums and an amendment to the Palauan constitution, the Compact was ratified in 1993 and went into effect on October 1, 1994, marking Palau independent de jure ( after Palau was independent de facto since May 25, 1994, when the trusteeship cancelled ).

Harry S. Truman, who was president when the amendment was adopted, and so by the amendment's provisions exempt from its limitation, also briefly sought a third ( a second full ) term before withdrawing from the 1952 election.

Anthony questioned why women should support this amendment when black men were not continuing to show support for women ’ s voting rights.

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.

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

Representative John Quincy Adams had made a proposal in 1839, but there were no new proposals until December 14, 1863, when a bill to support an amendment to abolish slavery throughout the entire United States was introduced by Representative James Mitchell Ashley ( Republican, Ohio ).

On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed the amendment to have been adopted on December 6, 1865, when Georgia's ratification brought the total number of states to ratify to 27 of the then 36 states.

The amendment was adopted on December 6, 1865, when Georgia ratified it.

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.

Prior to this amendment, Vice President Richard Nixon informally replaced President Dwight Eisenhower for several weeks on each of three occasions when Eisenhower was ill.

It was only when the FCC returned an hour to the networks on Sundays ( for children's / family or news programming ), taken away from them four years earlier, in a 1975 amendment to the Access Rule that CBS finally found a viable permanent timeslot for 60 Minutes.

The origin of the amendment can be traced back to 2000, when leading intelligent design ( ID ) proponents through the Discovery Institute,

A constitutional referendum can be called in order to approve a constitutional law or amendment only when it has been approved by the Houses ( Chamber of Deputies and Senate of the Republic ) with a majority of less than two thirds in both or either House, and only at the request of one fifth of the members of either House, or 500, 000 electors or five Regional Councils.

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 ).

Roosevelt ’ s most dramatic use of the Thomas amendment came on January 31, 1934, when he decreased the gold content of the dollar to 40. 94 percent.

Following amendment to the Kansas Constitution in 1986, the county remained a prohibition, or " dry ", county until 1998, when voters approved the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink without a food sales requirement.

In June 1950 when the Selective Services Law came up for renewal, Russell tried again to attach his segregation amendment, and again Congress defeated it.

In 1963, Senator Kenneth Keating of New York proposed a Constitutional amendment which would have enabled the Congress to enact legislation providing for how to determine when a President is disabled, rather than, as the Twenty-fifth Amendment does, having the Constitution so provide.

The chief administrator of NARA is the Archivist of the United States, who not only maintains the official documentation of the passage of amendments to the U. S. Constitution by state legislatures, but has the authority to declare when the constitutional threshold for passage has been reached, and therefore when an act has become an amendment.

The resignations were not made public, and the opportunity for Chamberlain to present his Radicalism to the country was only presented when the Irish Parliamentary Party endorsed a Conservative amendment to the budget on 9 June, which passed by 12 votes.

Following amendment to the Kansas Constitution in 1986, the county remained a prohibition, or " dry ", county until 1998, when voters approved the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with a 30 % food sales requirement.

On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward, proclaimed the amendment to have been ratified by the legislatures of 27 of the then 36 states.

On July 20, 1868, Secretary of State William H. Seward certified that the amendment had become part of the Constitution if the rescissions were ineffective, and presuming also that the later ratifications by states whose governments had been reconstituted superseded the initial rejection of the prior state legislatures.

On February 25, 1913, Secretary of State Philander Knox proclaimed that the amendment had been ratified by the necessary three-fourths of the states ; thus, it had become part of the Constitution.

On May 31, 1913, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan declared the amendment to have been adopted.

In 2003, the White House declined to take a stand on the amendment, although Press Secretary Ari Fleischer relayed that President George W. Bush believed that marriage was between a man and a woman.

Then, in November 2004, the Government introduced an amendment in the Lords which wholly removed references to the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, changing them to ones about the Lord Chancellor, with the positions of Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor envisaged as being held by the same person.

As of an amendment to Title 10 of the United States Code in 1989, the medal is also awarded for captivity by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict.

Sponsored by Representative Les Aspin, the bill added the fourth paragraph to Title 10 § 1128 and authorized the POW Medal for those captured “ by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .” This amendment was the result of congressional recognition of multiple groups of individuals who were not originally authorized to receive the medal after Department of Defense review, such as the < i > USS Pueblo </ i > crew detained in North Korea in 1968, the US Navy and US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Russia during World War II, the US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Switzerland during World War II, US Marine Corps Col. William R. Higgins who was kidnapped in 1988 and executed by Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists, and the U. S. Marines from the U. S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran who were held hostage by terrorists from 1979 – 1981 in the Iran Hostage Crisis.

This clarification is intended to cover the individuals taken prisoner as a result of the USS Pueblo seizure, as well as any similar occurrence that the Service Secretary concerned deems comparable to the circumstances under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during a war or conflict .” This amendment to the POW Medal statute now appears at 10 USC § 1128 ( a )( 4 ).

" What exactly qualifies as comparable circumstances of captivity and treatment was never defined in Title 10, although the 38 USC § 101 ( 32 ) Veterans Affairs POW Status statute that served as the source of the ' comparability clause ' for the 1989 amendment to Title 10 contains similar language requiring " circumstances which the Secretary finds to have been comparable to the circumstances under which persons have generally been forcibly detained or interned by enemy governments during periods of war.

In a 1991 Navy Office of the Judge Advocate General ( OTJAG ) review of Goodman's case, a Navy attorney stated that individuals held outside of armed conflict “ may be entitled to POW medals as a result of the amendment if the Secretary determines that the circumstances under which they were held captive were ' comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict.

The attorney discovered that neither the DoD awards manual nor the Navy's awards manual cited the 1989 amendment, and he called the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel ( ASD / FM & P ).

The June 1993 version of the DoD awards manual finally incorporated the 1989 amendment with the addition of the exception that " the POW Medal shall be issued only to those taken prisoner by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy forces during periods of armed conflict.

On August 26, 1920, the amendment was certified for adoption by the United States Secretary of State.

In November 1974 she called for the death penalty to be made available for IRA and all terrorists, moved an amendment to that effect in the House of Commons, and asked the then Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, to step up activities against the IRA.

Marcy Kaptur backed The American Clean Energy and Security Act in the U. S. House after she was able to insert an amendment that would authorize the Secretary of Energy to create power marketing authorities in regions where none currently exist.

On March 4, 1921, in response to the need for more hospitals serving veterans, Congress appropriated funds to the Secretary of the Treasury to construct additional hospitals for veterans covered by the War Risk Insurance Act amendment.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Hector McNeil during his tenure as Secretary of State for Scotland and in 1954 placed an amendment to the bill on the licensing of commercial television, advocating a ban on adverts on Sundays, Good Friday and Christmas Day.

During the final Parliamentary stages of the passage of the Railways Act 2005, the Government sustained a defeat in the House of Lords over an amendment which would have protected passenger and train operators against a diminution of infrastructure quality or performance-or being held rigidly to their contracts for the provision of railway services which assumed no such diminution-if the Secretary of State for Transport restricted funds available to Network Rail.