In Florida, voters are about to decide whether to amend their state's class size constitutional amendment, originally passed in 2002, which would freeze class sizes where they were last year -- at school-wide averages of no more than 18 students in grades K-3, 22 in grades four through nine, and 25 in high school, rather than actual classroom caps.
The amendment, originally known as the Lucretia Mott Amendment, was first drafted by the women's rights leader Alice Paul in 1923, three years after the passage of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage.
Thanks to Justice Field, Mr. Beatty argues, corporations found themselves in the delightful position of being regarded as persons entitled to the protection of the 14th Amendment, the very same amendment originally intended to safeguard the rights of freed slaves.
Hence the interest in a few paragraphs hidden in the energy bill that is now being reviewed by the Senate: an amendment, originally sponsored by Richard Burr of North Carolina, that would loosen restrictions on the export of highly-enriched bomb-grade uranium.Uranium is deemed to be "highly enriched" when at least 20% of its mass is the isotope U-235.
The amendment, originally introduced by Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, passed the House with bipartisan support earlier this year but was never taken up by the Senate.
Melanie Nezer, the senior director for policy and advocacy at HIAS, said the group also supports the extension of an amendment originally introduced by the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., which provides refugee status for persecuted religious minorities in other countries.
A spokesperson from her office told VICE these amendments were originally put forward by former Attorney-General Paul Lucas to remove doubts about how and when a partial defense involving a sexual advance can be used.
The amendment was originally proposed by Rusty Hicks, executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO.
But the Dickey-Wicker amendment, applied originally to an appropriation bill passed in 1996, and renewed each year since, bans federal funding of the destruction of human embryos for research.Cell-by dateThat, unfortunately, leaves plenty of room for ambiguity.
The vote on the Daschle amendment was originally scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, prompting Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, to cancel campaign events and return to Washington.
