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# A bill of rights should be coupled with the constitution to prevent a dictator ( then believed to eventually be the president ) from exploiting citizens.
" House representative Thomas Sisson stated, " The purpose of this bill -- and we are all in sympathy with it -- is to prevent the use of opium in the United States, destructive as it is to human happiness and human life.
The fact that the parliamentary bill authorising the drowning went through without support from any Welsh MPs showed that the MPs ' votes in Westminster were not enough to prevent such bills from passing.
In an elaborate scheme to prevent passage of still higher tariffs, while at the same time appealing to Andrew Jackson ’ s supporters in the North, John C. Calhoun and other southerners joined them in crafting a tariff bill that would also weigh heavily on materials imported by the New England states.
Johnson's administration drafted a bill intended to enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments, aiming to eliminate various previously legal strategies to prevent blacks and other minorities from voting.
Even if a similar bill is enacted, its practical effect may not be clear: proponents of the bill have argued that it is a valid exercise of Congress's power to regulate the jurisdiction of the federal courts under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution, but opponents question whether Congress has the authority to prevent the Supreme Court from hearing claims based on the Bill of Rights ( since amendments postdate the original text of the Constitution and may thus implicitly limit the scope of Article III, Section 2 ).
A tribune's veto did not prevent the senate from passing a bill, but meant that it was denied the force of law.
The tribunes could also use the veto to prevent a bill from being brought before the plebeian assembly.
Pitt's support for the bill, however, was not strong enough to prevent its defeat in the House of Commons.
He also signed a bill to prevent disqualification from a jury based on sexual orientation.
When the Republican Party gained a majority in both houses of the General Assembly in 2005, the procedural rules previously used to prevent a vote by the full chamber were changed so that the bill was handled as a state bill and not as a local bill.
In 1812 the town was platted as Creswell ’ s Landing, and that same year Governor Levin Winder signed the bill changing the name from Creswell ’ s Landing to Port Deposit to prevent the continued confusion resulting from multiple unofficial names.
At a meeting in Bolton on 4 October 1790, it was resolved that " proper clauses be inserted in the bill to prevent injury to owners of mills ".
One such example occurred October 26, 2006, when he spoke for almost 120 minutes to prevent the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development from studying a private member's bill to implement the Kyoto Accord.
The government had initially intended the 1832 bill to go further and abolish the Six Clerks, but the Clerks successfully lobbied to prevent this.
He reached agreement with Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez ( D-TX ) to insert into the bill “ firewalls ” that banks claimed would prevent real competition between banks and securities firms.
To prevent the humiliation of the success of the petition, Chairman Smith allowed the bill to pass through the Rules Committee.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield took a novel approach to prevent the bill from being relegated to Judiciary Committee limbo.
The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the " Southern Bloc " of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell ( D-GA ) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.
The bill is intended to ".. prevent Transportation Security Administration officers from wearing law enforcement uniforms and police-like badges and calling themselves officers unless they receive law enforcement training.
The Liberal government introduced a bill in February 1910 which would prevent the House of Lords vetoing finance bills, and would force them to pass any bill which had been passed by the Commons in three sessions of Parliament.

prevent and from
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
They fought hard, but they were forgiving to former foes, and sought to prevent vindictive legislatures from confiscating Tory property in violation of the Treaty of 1783.
The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.
But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.
The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.
For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.
It is a publishing and public relations center, but these very facts prevent it from being a literary center because writers dislike provincialism and untruth.
There remains, of course, the question of what the West can do beyond diplomatic protest to prevent the illegal efforts from becoming accomplished facts.
In designing his home fallout shelter there is nothing to prevent a man from planning to shelter that home's occupants, `` plus-one '' -- so he will be able to take in a stranger.
Heavy-coated, severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses along the curbside to prevent the revellers from spilling out in front of the crawling traffic.
Spherical concave backing surfaces support the diaphragm when excessive pressures are applied and prevent the stresses within the diaphragm from exceeding the elastic limit.
and second, to increase uniformly the allotments to those States whose allotments are below their maximums, with adjustments to prevent the allotment of any State from thereby exceeding its maximum.
The purpose of the adjusted Federal share relating to the base allotment and of the transition provisions for reaching the unadjusted Federal share is to prevent dislocations from abrupt changes in matching rates.
The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.
In the frame are two sets of bars which interact with each other to prevent the operator from making dangerous moves.
This will prevent the clay from twisting or bending, causing warping when fired.
The return spring tension may be adjusted to suit individual requirements by gripping the spring housing with a pair of pliers ( to prevent the spring from unwinding when it is released ), loosening the lock nut or screw, and rotating the housing until the desired tension is achieved.
( We do, however, recommend those patented covers to prevent both people and junk -- flora and fauna generally -- from accidentally wintering in the pool.
The bubble was filled to the top and special precautions were taken to prevent any sample from remaining in the capillary.
These subjects implied that they too could prevent their arms from rising if they tried.
To prevent the manager from deliberately controlling himself only during the sessions, they were rather lengthy ( about twenty minutes ), the situations were imperfectly described to the manager so that he would not know what to expect, new antagonists were brought on the scene unexpectedly, and the antagonists were instructed to deliberately behave in such ways as to upset the manager and get him to operate in a manner for which he had been previously criticized.
Although the elections were for local officials, it was not necessary to conduct the elections so as to prevent parties from publicly identifying their candidates.
The anti-assignment statute was held not to prevent the American corporation from suing for a refund of taxes paid by the British corporation.

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