Sentence examples for on the Fourteenth amendment from inspiring English sources

In one sweeping ruling, the justices answered both key questions in the case based on the Fourteenth Amendment: Does the Constitution require all 50 states to allow same-sex couples to marry, and should they recognize lawful same-sex marriages performed elsewhere?

The Washington case turned, not on the Fourteenth Amendment, as did the others, but on the Fifth Amendment.

Roraback and Harper chose to base their argument on the Fourteenth Amendment, which lies at the heart of this year's same-sex-marriage cases, too.

250, 251, 56 L.Ed. 500 (1912), the Court rests its decision instead on the Fourteenth Amendment due process doctrine of Pearce.

This claim by petitioners is based on the Fourteenth Amendment, and respondent calls our attention to the fact that at trial and on appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court petitioners pointed only to specific Bill of Rights provisions.

Already disadvantaged as a result of poverty, lack of English-speaking ability, and undeniable racial prejudices, these children, without an education, will become permanently locked into the lowest socio-economic class". But the question didn't turn on anyone's policy preferences; it turned on the Fourteenth Amendment.

"We should not establish a constitutional privilege," Justice Powell said, referring to one based on the First Amendment.

"I don't trust him on the Second Amendment," wrote one commenter with the name docpsych34, on the Human Events site.

The Supreme Court was, in one historian's words, "bitterly divided" on the First Amendment issues presented by Dennis.

The question as to your stand on the Eighteenth Amendment.

That is an outrageous assault on the First Amendment.