Following the debate surrounding the Teller Amendment, the Platt Amendment took effect.
The 17th Amendment took effect in 1913.
Georgia remains a presidential republic for another year, when constitutional amendments take effect.
The amendments, which took effect on July 1, rewrite the portion of the code that governs the pledging of personal property as security for a loan.
Still, Mr. Mappen spins some good yarns about the gangsters, dominated by New Yorkers, whose rise was triggered by the 18th Amendment, which took effect in 1920, and who proved that, at times, crime not only pays, but pays very well.
The amendment does not indicate what will happen to those gay couples who wed in the two and a half years between May 17 and the earliest date the amendment could take effect.
By itself, the 105-to-92 vote on Monday cannot prevent those marriages: the amendment can take effect no earlier than November 2006, because it requires passage again in the 2005-6 legisession session and then in a public referendum.
The amendment, which takes effect in February, treats trees much like historic buildings, protecting them and making it a crime to chop them down.
With an amendment that took effect in 2011, Congress extended GI Bill funding to vocational programs but capped direct payments to proprietary flight schools at $10,000 a year per student.
An amendment to the law that took effect in 1978 let artists recover rights to their work after 35 years; the rule also applied to works copyrighted before 1978, but after a maximum of 56 years.
