The first ten amendments to the constitution (the Bill of Rights) originally bound only the federal government.
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Require all laws to have sunset clauses, except for Amendments to the Constitution.
So, how does it compare to the other 27 amendments to the Constitution?
But it is lobbying for change including amendments to the constitution that would affect women, including rights within the family.
In Kenya , Parliament debated amendments to the constitution that would entrench a new power-sharing arrangement agreed between the president, Mwai Kibaki, and his main rival, Raila Odinga.
The Central Bank and the Finance Ministry joined forces earlier this week to devise two new measures and amendments to the Constitution to keep the Brazilian real from strengthening too much against the dollar.
When the Senate ratified UNCAT in 1994, it enacted a significant reservation: the CID terms were limited to what was already covered under U.S. law by three Bill of Rights provisions: the Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth amendments to the Constitution.
Fresh polls will require amendments to the interim constitution, but the only body able to amend it has been dissolved.
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They said they first wanted him to commit to the idea of a national unity government and a body to look at amendments to the new Egyptian constitution.
Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 (1961) which held that such a law violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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The Bill of Rights set out the bedrock principles that ultimately would become the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, including freedom of the press and the right to a "speedy and public" trial.
In North Carolina, strangers standing next to each other played games to pass the time, quizzing each other on their knowledge of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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Just four days before the vote, it was agreed that the next parliament, to be elected in December, will create a commission to review the constitution and propose amendments, to be confirmed in yet another referendum six months later.
They reject most of the parliamentary amendments made to their constitution when they vote on them, as they are entitled to under the law.
The Hungarian parliament has approved a controversial set of amendments to the country's new constitution.
In 1791, the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. constitution, went into effect.
Along with the 13th and 14th Amendments, the 15th Amendment was ratified following the Confederacy's defeat to cement the Union's war aims into the Constitution.
These amendments stated explicitly that rights not enumerated in the Constitution were not denied to the people and that powers not enumerated in the Constitution nor prohibited to the states therein were reserved to the states or the people.
He appealed to the Supreme Court, claiming that forcing him to take the drugs would breach his rights under the first, fifth and sixth amendments of the constitution.
Because there, the courts have said under our Constitution that the executive branch's Constitutional authority - to answer the question of one of your previous callers - to protect classified information comes into direct conflict with the criminal defendant's right to a full and complete defense under a number of amendments to our Constitution.
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