In August, counsel for the Center for Medical Progress and BioMax, the organizations behind the videos that led to the latest round of conservative outrage against Planned Parenthood, informed the court that they planned to invoke the Fifth Amendment in order to avoid testifying in a lawsuit brought by the National Abortion Federation. .
The constitution of Italy has built-in guarantees against easy amendment, in order to make it virtually impossible to replace it with a dictatorial regime.
Aren't these the same people who have been trying mightily to partially abolish the First Amendment in order to be able to lock me in prison if I should ever draw a certain pattern of stars and stripes on a piece of paper or cloth and then tear it up or step on it?
Although Stanley was against prohibition, he supported the 1918 amendment in order to settle the liquor issue and clear the legislature's order paper for other measures.
Sixty percent of voters must approve the amendment in order for it take effect.
"We recommend that you endorse the Daschle amendment in order to sustain your credibility on HR 1122 and prevent Congress from overriding your veto," Ms. Kagan and her boss, Bruce Reed, said in the memo on May 13 , 1997
Ms. Pelosi, then the House speaker, refused, loath to force vulnerable Democrats to take not one but two difficult votes, and fearing that Republicans might help carry his amendment in order to sink the entire bill.
It's not as though we need the absolute right afforded by the First Amendment in order to achieve greater freedom of speech for the world's online population.
On the other hand, Ampère's law describing the magnetic effect of a current required amendment in order to be consistent with the conservation of charge (the total charge must remain constant) in the presence of changing electric fields, and Maxwell introduced the idea of "displacement current" to make the set of equations logically consistent.
Far less compelling arguments have been made for a constitutional amendment in order to advance the political careers of Henry Kissinger and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who were both born outside the United States to non-American citizens and, by any possible construction of the clause, are ineligible for the Presidency.
