Sentence examples for enforcing the amendment from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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

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".

But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment".

The Miranda warning was the creation of the Supreme Court as a way of enforcing the Fifth Amendment.

And the Voting Rights Act decision, as Professor Johnsen goes on to point out, was likewise the opposite of originalist, rejecting the court's longstanding deference to the role of Congress in enforcing the 15th Amendment's guarantee of the right to vote.