Or she can call for amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Sen. Sanders has, and a go a few steps better, calling for lifting the ban on transgender service, pushing for passage of anti-bullying legislation and getting a law passed that ends "ex-gay" therapy.
Another measure, called the repeal amendment, calls for amending the U.S. Constitution so that federal laws and regulations could be invalidated by agreement of two-thirds of state legislatures.
He had called for amending, or even rewriting, Myanmar's Constitution, to reduce the power of the military that had drafted it in the first place.
In what he described as a major initiative, Mr. Hoffa called for amending the Teamsters constitution so that it would require direct election of the union's president.
It also called for amending the City Charter to give board members the power to choose their own chairman, rather than the Mayor.
The report also calls for amending a 1986 law governing electronic communications so that protections for e-mails and content in the cloud are as strong as those that exist for their analogue equivalents.
Among other changes, he calls for amending bankruptcy laws to cover companies — retail banks, stock and commodity brokers and insurance companies — so that large, complex institutions could be fully dealt with in court.
Although they are still advocating for independent board chairs, simple majority voting and written consent, they have downplayed their calls for amending proxy access bylaws and easing eligibility requirements for shareholders to call special meetings.
The Guardian's Spencer Ackerman reports: One of the major Senate critics of US government surveillance called for amending the Patriot Act on Sunday to rein in the National Security Agency's broad dragnet sweeping up Americans' communications.
Almost from the day he rose to power, there have been calls for amending the Constitution so that Mr. Putin could remain in office beyond the end of a second four-year term in 2008.
Had he sought re-election to the Senate in 2000, he might well have been hurt by his D.O.M.A. vote and by his opposition to a 2000 ballot measure in Nebraska that called for amending the state constitution to ban same-sex civil unions as well as marriages.
