But it's clearly a move away from the constitutional amendment, rather than toward it".
Offering it as an amendment, rather than the underlying bill, often makes it harder to prevail on the Senate floor.
Democrats, say the DLC, need to say explicitly that they support legal gun ownership and the second amendment, rather than talking about tighter gun rules.
Mr. Dayton's stance helps explain why Republican lawmakers here are urging a constitutional amendment rather than merely passing a state law as Indiana legislators did.
Too many politicians — in Congress and elsewhere — prefer to blindly salute the Second Amendment rather than face the appalling costs of gun mayhem in communities like Aurora, where the toll so far — apart from the loss of life — is $17 million and counting for the needs of survivors, according to a conservative estimate in The Denver Post.
In high school, I encouraged my friends to circulate a notebook in which we shared our candid thoughts about teachers, and when we got caught, I was the one who wanted to argue about the First Amendment rather than gracefully accept punishment.
Even after that, in 1963, state legislators prohibited Communists, and those who had taken the Fifth Amendment rather than testify at Congressional hearings, from speaking at state university campuses, a ban that university leaders fought until it was overturned by a federal court in 1968.
Until Democratic politicians recognize and acknowledge the Second Amendment as an individual right, like the First Amendment, rather than just some collective right of states to maintain a militia, red-state voters will continue to vote for Republicans who do acknowledge and defend the right of a citizen to keep and bear arms.
But it is the Fourteenth Amendment rather than the First Amendment that is most squarely implicated by the government's actions.
Glasser was also the first jury discrimination case to invoke the Sixth Amendment (rather than Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment).
Grijalva, in pushing for an amendment rather than including the provision in the bill itself, is in conceding defeat in this round, while vowing to press forward.
