(These amendments are given in full in an appendix at the end of this post).
"And the day that the Founders signed the Constitution, they also signed the first ten amendments to that Constitution; and those ten amendments were given as a gift, a protection to the individual American.
The court's first opportunity to construe the Fourteenth Amendment was given by the Slaughter-House cases (1873), in which a group of livestock butchers challenged a state law that granted a monopoly of their trade to a single entrepreneur.
During World War I, with increased fear among the American public and attempts at suppression of criticism by the government, the First Amendment was given wider examination in the U.S. Supreme Court.
In Valenti, the judiciary applied the "substantial state interests" test, which involves simply looking at whether the statute in question furthers the interests of the states, who under the Seventeenth Amendment are given some discretion as to the electoral process they use.
In my kids' bathroom above the toilet, I hung a poster called "The 19th Amendment" by artist Michael Albert-- it's a collage that features the text of the 19th amendment and was given to me by my sister-in-law who is a friend of the artist.
Jim Rogers, the chief executive of Duke Energy, with its headquarters in Charlotte, was one of the few executives in the state to speak out against the amendment, though he stressed he was giving his personal views and not speaking for Duke Energy.
Lou Dobbs was giving the First Amendment address to Talkers in a world I don't even pretend to understand, where tyranny and anarchy morph into the same thing, where National Socialism is socialist and not fascist, where guns and ammo are bought in bulk so as to blow what's left of the law sky-high.
Ultimately, the aforementioned and other amendments to ICMJE should be given further consideration in order to avoid unfair exclusion of authors based on language.
When Prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933, states were given the authority to regulate the "transportation or importation" of "intoxicating liquors" within their borders.
