Sentence examples for the amendment authorizes from inspiring English sources

The amendment authorizes the use of money from tolls, gasoline taxes and other sources to increase the Transportation Trust Fund to $1 billion annually.

In other words, the amendment authorizes Congress to pass laws only to combat violations of the rights protected in other sections.

On Thursday, Mr. Carney dismissed the argument, popular in some legal circles, that the amendment authorized the president to raise the debt ceiling.

The amendments authorized wagering on horse races, as well as bingo and games of chance, so long as the profits go to nonprofit, charitable or religious groups, and in the case of state lottery games, for the benefit of education.

"The new amendment authorizes the museum, should the need arise, to consider a range of admission modifications in future years, subject as in the past to review and approval by the City".

The obvious problem here, as compelling as the historically based claim may be, is that, even if the president's constitutional judgment is correct, it is not clear that the Fourteenth Amendment authorizes the president to create a remedy.

In the end, however, many liberal scholars believe that if the court took seriously the text and history of the entire Constitution — including the 16th Amendment, authorizing the income tax, and the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote — then originalism should just as often lead to liberal as conservative results.

Arguably, the 14th Amendment authorizes Congress to address that issue pursuant to its power to enforce due process and equal protection guarantees.

After much debate, the state legislative road committee included the statement that this route would follow the Feather River in the 1919 amendment authorizing a third bond issue; instead of keeping it as Route 30, the Highway Commission changed the designation to an extension of the short Richvale-Oroville (now SR 162) Route 21, which was also part of the first bond issue.

One amendment authorizes the company to change its name to 21st Century Fox, enabling the publishing division, which is preparing to spin off into a stand-alone entity, to claim the News Corp. name.

He helped enact a corporate income tax and passage of the 16th Amendment, authorizing personal income taxation.