Sentence examples for enforce the amendment from inspiring English sources

And it gives to Congress the exclusive right to enforce the amendment by appropriate legislation.

President Barack Obama signed the trade bill into law, but indicated it would not enforce the amendment related to Israeli settlement goods.

To enforce the amendment, Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which provided federal oversight of elections in discriminatory jurisdictions, banned literacy tests and similar discriminatory devices, and created legal remedies for people affected by voting discrimination.

The document says that the IRS might not enforce the rule "against a religious nonprofit organization under circumstances in which it would not enforce the amendment against a secular nonprofit organization".

Both of the amendments contain clauses stating, "Congress shall have power to enforce" the amendments by "appropriate legislation".

Outlays would actually have to be well below 18 percent of G.D.P. in practice because future spending is held to 18 percent of the previous fiscal year's G.D.P., and there is no practical way of enforcing the amendment through the federal courts.

The Freedmen's Bureau enforced the Amendment locally, providing a degree of support for people subject to the Black Codes.

Section 5, also known as the Enforcement Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, enables Congress to pass laws enforcing the amendment's other provisions.

Nor, he wrote, is the law constitutional under Congress's power to enforce the 14th Amendment, because that power extends only to regulating conduct by the state.

With Tumulty, she scripted the State of the Union Message, vetoed the Volstead Act (passed to enforce the Prohibition amendment) and reorganized the cabinet.

Federal civil rights laws are generally passed under either Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce or its power to enforce the 14th Amendment.