Government amendments provide for virtual police-state control.
Its constitution, promulgated in 1926 during the French mandate and modified by several subsequent amendments, provides for a unicameral Chamber of Deputies (renamed the National Assembly in 1979) elected for a term of four years by universal adult suffrage (women attained the right to vote and eligibility to run for office in 1953).
One is an antic Constitutional fundamentalism that yearns to roll back amendments providing for the direct election of Senators and the progressive income tax.
Finally, the last section, mirroring the approach of the Thirteenth Amendment, provided for enforcement.
Half of the Senate's 100 members run for re-election every three years; a recent constitutional amendment provided for four new seats for non-Muslim minorities.
Cruz also cited Tribe in his brief for District of Columbia v Heller, a landmark 2008 case in which the court held that the second amendment provided for an individual right to bear arms.
In rejecting Mr. Ghailani's claim, the judge said that while the Sixth Amendment provided for the right to counsel, the "right to counsel of choice does not extend to defendants who require counsel to be appointed for them".
In that case, the court held that the second amendment provided for an individual right to bear arms and the late Justice Antonin Scalia proclaimed "handguns are the most popular weapon chosen by Americans for self-defense in the home, and a complete prohibition of their use is invalid".
Mr. Ashcroft's amendment provided for only one exception to the abortion ban -- "medical procedures required to prevent the death of either the pregnant woman or her unborn offspring," so long as "every reasonable effort" was made to save both their lives.
This amendment provided for the state's first lieutenant governor to be elected in the state's 2009 gubernatorial election.
However, with great foresight, the drafters of the 25th amendment provided for an alternative entity to be given the role of a concurrent advisor to the vice president in substitution for the cabinet.
