The Supreme Court justice's dramatic First Amendment conversion was occasioned by friends.
This and the NRA persuasion of elected officials led to a dramatic shift in Second Amendment legal views.
Unlike "Empire of the Sun" (1987) or "Catch Me If You Can" (2002), which left us with a tussle of competing feelings, Spielberg's latest work exults without a fleck of irony in its moral obligation — to lend dramatic form to the First Amendment.
It's more like the recent Lincoln movie from 2012 and the dramatic vote on the 13th Amendment, or the climatic Pickett's Charge from the Gettysburg movie 20 years ago.
As he details in his 2017 book, For All Americans (The Dramatic Story Behind the Stupak Amendment and the Historic Passage of Obamacare), Stupak had many complaints about the way Pelosi handled his demands that the Affordable Care Act include strict language prohibiting federal dollars from paying for elective abortions.
What the court actually decided, however, he said, was "a dramatic expansion and upheaval in Sixth Amendment law," which governs the right to counsel in criminal prosecutions.
On July 17, 1973, in a dramatic roll call vote, the Gravel amendment was approved as a 49 49 tie was broken in favor by Vice President Spiro Agnew.
Aside from his filibuster against John O. Brennan's nomination to be the director of the C.I.A., Paul's effort to get attention for this amendment was one of the most dramatic moments of his Senate career.
Mr Estrada, for his part, was thought to be crafting amendments to favour crony businessmen.In general, dramatic constitutional change risks confusing voters and further alienating them from politics.
(Zinoman) * 'BUSTED JESUS COMIX' Based on the story of the only cartoonist ever to be tried and convicted of obscenity, this nicely performed 65-minute satire belongs to a rich dramatic tradition of turning dirty-minded artists into First Amendment heroes.
