Sentence examples for amendment to apply from inspiring English sources

If Mr. Justice Holmes' assertion that it would be an extreme, if not extravagant, extension of the Fifth Amendment to apply it in such a situation strikes a responsive chord, it is because the primary context from which the privilege emerges is that of the criminal process, both in the investigatory and trial phases.

In the US from the 1940s on, courts gradually began to enforce the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to apply strict scrutiny to state-imposed categorizations based on race; later on, constitutional law began to address whether race and sex could be analogized or even coupled for purposes of analysis (Mayeri 2011).

Seizing on the fact that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment recognizes the authority of states to bar criminals from voting, both the 2nd Circuit and the 11th Circuit have rejected Voting Rights Act challenges to felon disenfranchisement laws, emphasizing constitutional doubts about Congress's power under the 15th Amendment to apply the Act to such statutes.

The government would also like the citizenship amendments to apply retrospectively.

But if the criminality has already been taken away, the amendment ceases to apply.

He said the Fifth Amendment had to apply to Mr. Ghailani as much as to any other defendant.

"These proved that the amendment was supposed to apply in hard times as well as in good.

The amendment was held to apply to the states in Mapp v. Ohio (1961).

In July though, Grant told Sydney radio station 2GB that he was "appalled" by the sentence, and claimed Stone had failed to apply amendments to sentencing laws.

During his gubernatorial campaign, he insisted that he would not seek to have such an amendment apply to himself, but shortly after his election, he reversed course and insisted on an amendment that did not exclude present incumbents.

Nor do the First Amendment arguments apply to employment cases, they say.