During the debt ceiling crisis, the Senator stated that he would only support raising the debt ceiling if a balanced budget amendment was enacted.
When the 1st Amendment was enacted, we were a nation of Protestants, with small Catholic and tiny Jewish minorities.
While we applaud a federal judge's ruling temporarily restoring Acosta's access, we insist that the revocation remains an affront to the expressive freedoms the First Amendment was enacted to protect, and demand it be rescinded forthwith.
After Senator Blanche Lincoln, a Democrat from Arkansas, put forward an amendment that would force the big banks to move their derivatives-trading desks into separate subsidiaries backed by more capital, Volcker wrote a letter to Dodd saying that such a move was unnecessary, providing that the Merkley-Levin amendment was enacted.
In that case as in this case, the parties permitted the original illegal security agreement to remain unaltered in its terms after the amendment was enacted.
Accordingly, the Office of Law Revision Counsel (the "Revisor"), which Congress has tasked by statute with handling the codification process, properly concluded that, once the substantive amendment was enacted, the clerical amendment was rendered moot and "could not be executed" because it referred to language that no longer existed in the amended statute.
Following the end of the civil war the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted.
And even though the 13th amendment was enacted, the oppression of immigrants and people of color continue.
That was a concerted choice for Parker, who said slave owners were part of the systematized evil encouraged before the 13th Amendment was enacted.
The Second Amendment was enacted to satisfy the concerns of the republican anti-Federalists that a large standing army would be an instrument of foreign adventure and potential domestic political repression.
It was on May 31 , 1913-- exactly one hundred years ago -- that the 17th Amendment was enacted to shift the election of senators from state legislatures to the voters of each state.
