But this week, more than four years after the devastating algae bloom in 2014 that cut off drinking water for 500,000 people, Toledo voters passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, a unique charter amendment that establishes the huge lake as a person and grants it the legal rights that a human being or corporation would have.
In India, a 2005 amendment created a unique mechanism to restore balance and fairness to patenting standards, thereby safeguarding access.
It's a unique approach to the second amendment that hasn't really been done before.
On the other hand, Michigan faces a unique situation because of the constitutional amendment protecting pensions, which could create legal headaches down the road.
Housing advocates campaign annually for full funding of the housing fund, however Amendment 1 presents a unique potential challenge to the future funding of the housing fund.
The continued deference by the courts to legislative judgments on guns is, I believe, an implicit recognition that the Second Amendment right is a unique kind of constitutional guarantee.
Advocates of the amendment argued that the flag was a unique national symbol that demanded special protection; opponents maintained that flag burning was neither so widespread nor so dangerous that it justified tampering with the First Amendment.
Thus, soil amendment of biochar from crop straw could be adopted as a unique ecological engineering measure to reduce N2O emission while enhancing soil fertility and sustaining rice productivity in rice ecosystems.
Comparison with the control plots reveals significant influence of amendments on 137Cs mobility in these soils developed from a unique genoform.
This one isn't a unique idea, there are already people pushing for some version of this to become a real amendment.
But for purposes of Fourth Amendment analysis, the choice among such reasonable alternatives remains with the governmental officials who have a unique understanding of, and a responsibility for, limited public resources, including a finite number of police officers...
