To rally support, he distributed sheep to indigenous farmers and raised salaries for the army and bureaucracy.On May 7th Ecuadoreans voted on a 4,000-word 4,000-word ten amendments, package in impenetrable legalese, that wofld give Mr Correa broad new powers over ten courts amendments
Would the court attach specific meaning and substance to the arguable 14th Amendment phrases?
Consider just this line, delivered to the swell of important music: "It would fall to the Supreme Court to attach specific meaning and substance to those arguable 14th Amendment phrases".
In the Fourth Amendment, which deals with unreasonable searches and seizures, the word "violated" gets an extra surge of dissonance, while in the Eighth Amendment, the phrase "cruel and unusual punishment" is emphasized with repeated cluster chords.
It's not enough that the First Amendment-offending phrase already appears on our currency and is listed as our national motto.
Hence the amendment's phrasing, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".
A Chinese intervention was rather less camouflaged in its intentions, with the country representative requesting in one of the (subsequently) rejected amendments that the phrase in the resolution text "a comprehensive human rights-based approach" be changed to "a comprehensive and integrated approach".
Regan McCarthy New York, Dec. 16, 2007 To the Editor: Adam Freedman correctly notes that the commas in the Second Amendment are of no interpretive significance, and that there is a logical relation between the amendment's prefatory phrase and its operative clause.
-- The Second Amendment Foundation, a group that promotes the right to firearms Following common usage, the framers of the Second Amendment used the phrase "bear arms" to refer to possession of weapons for military use...
"Where exactly in the U.S. Constitution does it address "separation of church and state?" and "Simply put, nowhere in the First Amendment does the phrase 'separation of church and state' exist".
