The eighth amendment holds that the right to life of a pregnant woman cannot be privileged over that of a foetus.
The Fourteenth Amendment holds that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law".
The 14th Amendment holds that it is unconstitutional to imprison individuals for debts they can't pay (there is a caveat for willful debt refusal) but, as the ACLU noted in 2012, the incarceration of debtors has become "a growing problem nationwide".
Indeed, the Court has never extended Estelle s Fifth Amendment holding beyond its particular facts.
The filibuster of the Manchin-Toomey amendment held, effectively ending the push for new gun legislation in the wake of Newtown.
In announcing the cancellation, the Israelis avoided what could have been an embarrassing debate on the floor of the House of Representatives today, where the chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Representative Sonny Callahan, Republican of Alabama, was preparing to bring up an amendment holding back $250 million in assistance to Israel.
The Wyden amendment held up funding for the Total Information Awareness penetration of the American home until the administration (1) explained it in detail to Congress, including its impact on civil liberties, and (2) barred any deployment of the technology against U.S. citizens without prior Congressional approval.
The Fourth Amendment, held to forbid Border Patrol officers, in the absence of consent or probable cause, to search private vehicles at traffic checkpoints removed from the border and its functional equivalents, and for this purpose there is no difference between a checkpoint and a roving patrol.
In 2010, in United States v. Alvarez, the Ninth Circuit found the Act unconstitutional under the First Amendment, holding that false statements of fact, like other content-based restrictions on speech, are subject to strict scrutiny.
White Northern Republicans, and some Democrats, became excited about an abolition amendment, holding meetings and issuing resolutions.
In fact these elections were little more than a device to rally pro-government votes for a referendum on a series of constitutional amendments, held the same day.
