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English Domestic Or, Homiletic Tragedy, 1575 to 1642: Being an Account of the Development of the Tragedy of the Common Man Showing Its Great Dependence on Religious Morality, Illustrated with Striking Examples of the Interposition of Providence for the Amendment of Men's Manners

Book by Henry Hitch Adams; Columbia University Press, 1943

Subjects:

English Drama (Tragedy)--History And Criticism, English Drama--Early Modern And Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History And Criticism, Religion In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Interposition of PROVIDENCE For the Amendment of Mens Manners By HENRY...with a full purpose of amendment of life, do flee unto the mercy of God, taking sure...and from his sight? .... The fourth is, an amendment of life, or a new life...
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The 5th Amendment Today: Three Speeches

Book by Erwin N. Griswold; Harvard University Press, 1955

Subjects:

Due Process Of Law--United States, Self-Incrimination--United States, United States--Constitution--5th Amendment

Collections: Entire Library

...without due process of law; nor...compensation. 1 THE FIFTH AMENDMENT Old friends...included. The Fifth Amendment, largely drafted...without due process of law...The Fifth Amendment has played a part in the process of crystal...
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No Easy Walk to Freedom: Reconstruction and the Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

Book by James E. Bond; Praeger Publishers, 1997

Subjects:

African Americans--Civil Rights--History--19th Century, Civil Rights--United States--History--19th Century, Constitutional Amendments--United States--Ratification--History--19th Century, Southern States--History--1865-1877, United States--Constitution--14th Amendment--History--19th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

A major study of the ratification of the 14th Amendment, shedding new light on the meaning of the amendment.
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No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights

Book by Michael Kent Curtis; Duke University Press, 1986

Subjects:

African Americans--Civil Rights--History, Slavery--Law And Legislation--United States--History, United States--Constitution--14th Amendment--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

This work focuses on the issue of whether the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was designed to bring the states under the provisions of the Bill of Rights. The author traces the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment and provides a comprehensive look into the lawmakers intent. He negates the ...
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This work focuses on the issue of whether the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was designed to bring the states under the provisions of the Bill of Rights. The author traces the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment and provides a comprehensive look into the lawmakers intent. He negates the recently emerging idea that the incorporation doctrine is based on shaky historical foundations.
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Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920

Book by Richard F. Hamm; University of North Carolina Press, 1995

Subjects:

Liquor Laws--United States--History, Prohibition--United States--History, Temperance--United States--History, United States--Constitution--18th Amendment--History

Collections: Entire Library

...Constitutional law--Amendments--18th--History. I...Introduction: Reformers and the Polity , 1...vagaries of the publishing process. The far-reaching...argued that the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment sanctioned the immediate...

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The Constitutional Amendment Process

Journal article by Kahlil Chism; Social Education, Vol. 69, 2005

Subjects:

Constitutional amendments--Study and teaching, Legislation--Study and teaching, Legislative process--Study and teaching, Social science education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

The Constitutional Amendment Process. by Kahlil Chism...amending the Constitution. While the amendment process currently consists of six steps...facilitate their understanding of the amendment process: * Congress proposes an amendment...
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The People Made Me Do It: Can the People of the States Instruct and Coerce Their State Legislatures in the Article V Constitutional Amendment Process?

Journal article by Vikram David Amar; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 41, 2000

Subjects:

Constitutional amendments--Citizen participation, Legislative bodies--Powers and duties, Referendum--Analysis, United States Constitution--U.S. Const. art. 5

Collections: Entire Library

...institutions in each state to make the amendment process as efficient as possible...play an important role in the amendment process. However, when a state has...be that we should interpret the amendment process to make it difficult to enact...
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The Other Way to Amend the Constitution: The Article V. Constitutional Convention Amendment Process

Journal article by James Kenneth Rogers; Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 30, 2007

Subjects:

Constitutional conventions--Laws, regulations and rules, Constitutional interpretation--Evaluation, Constitutional law--Evaluation, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Initiative, Right of--Laws, regulations and rules, Right of initiative--Laws, regulations and rules

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...exist about the use of this amendment process. May the conventions scope be limited...legislature from participating in the amendment process and groups that wanted to...is only the first step in the amendment process. The proposed amendments must...
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Can the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Deal with a Disabled President? Preventing Future White House Cover-Ups

Journal article by Herbert L. Abrams; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 29, 1999

Subjects:

Capacity and disability--Political aspects, Presidents--Health aspects, United States Constitution. 25th Amendment

Collections: History, Entire Library

...appraisal by the vice president and Cabinet once disability is suspected. Indeed, throughout the deliberative process leading up to the amendments drafting and ratification, the issue of how medical input would be obtained was virtually ignored.(19...
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The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment

Journal article by Michael A. Ross; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 71, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Fourteenth Amendment and the Law of the Constitution (Book), The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...to the new Fourteenth Amendments privileges or immunities clause and, in the process, helped prevent the Bill...included terms such as due process, privileges or immunities, and equal protection in the amendments first section, they bound...

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A Bold Remedy to a Grave Threat: Because the 14th Amendment's Original Intent Has Been Ignored and the Amendment Has Been Used to Grant Citizenship to the Children of Illegal Immigrants, Congress Needs to Clarify the Meaning of the Amendment's Language

Magazine article by George Detweiler; The New American, Vol. 21, October 31, 2005

Subjects:

Emigration and immigration law, Illegal immigrants--Laws, regulations and rules, Illegal immigrants--Social aspects, Immigrant children--Laws, regulations and rules, Immigrant children--Social aspects, Immigration law

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...advantage of this legal loophole, and in the process, are doing much to run up our national debt. The Center for Immigration Studies says that...needs to stop. Ignoring the Intent The 14th Amendment provides, in part: Section 1. All persons...
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Speech & Power: Is First Amendment Absolutism Obsolete?

Magazine article by Ronald K.L. Collins, David M. Skover, Floyd Abrams, Owen Fiss, Wendy Kaminer, Cass R. Sunstein, Steven R. Shapiro, C. Edwin Baker, Kathleen Sullivan, Martin Garbus; The Nation, Vol. 265, July 21, 1997

Subjects:

Freedom of speech--Public opinion, United States Constitution. 1st Amendment

Collections: Entire Library

...death. In the process, citizen...liberate the public discourse...the First Amendment from lawyers...electoral process. Public financing...compromising the First Amendment. It is...begin that process is to restore the foundations...the First Amendment--following...
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The New Theology of the First Amendment: Class Privilege over Democracy

Magazine article by Robert W. Mcchesney; Monthly Review, Vol. 49, March 1998

Subjects:

American Civil Liberties Union--Political activity, Constitutional amendments--Public opinion, Democracy--Political aspects, United States Constitution. 1st Amendment

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...activities are given First Amendment protection, it makes the rule of capital increasingly...puts the entire political process ever more firmly under the...and parcel of a broader process whereby the First Amendment has become more a mechanism...
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Happy Anniversary? This Year We "Celebrate" the Ninetieth Anniversary of the Passage of the Sixteenth Amendment: "Congress Shall Have Power to Lay and Collect Taxes on Incomes, from Whatever Source Derived, without Apportionment among the Several States, and without Regard to Any Census or Enumeration."

Magazine article by Richard E. Wagner; World and I, Vol. 18, April 2003

Subjects:

Income tax--History, Tax reform--Analysis, United States Constitution. 16th Amendment, United States--History, United States--Tax policy

Collections: Entire Library

...support that culture. The enactment of the Sixteenth Amendment signified the ascendancy of a collectivist culture. That ascendancy...must pay or secure favored programs. The political process will be continually readjusting tax burdens, with...
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Second Amendment Sisters

Magazine article by Robert W. Lee; The New American, Vol. 18, April 22, 2002

Subjects:

Activists--Political activity, Associations, Caywood, Christie--Political activity, Political activists--Political activity, Right to bear arms, Second Amendment Sisters--Political activity, Women

Collections: Entire Library

...waiting until her 21st birthday to begin the process. And even then, she could be denied a...without any real justification. "I saw that the rights of people to own guns were being...and talking to women about their Second Amendment rights." While organizing the chapter...

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The Amendment Process

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 28, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

The Amendment Process. Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES...miscue," Commentary, Tuesday), treat the amendment process as if it were no different from...sentiments," what does? How would the amendment process be anything less than the "legislative...
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Massachusetts OKs Marriage Amendment; Would Provide for Civil Unions

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 30, 2004

Subjects:

Romney, Mitt

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...for homosexuals. Lawmakers hope the amendments passage, the first step in a process that could succeed no earlier than November...implementation of its November ruling until after the constitutional amendment process is complete. "I believe the Supreme...
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Lawmakers Advance Amendment Restrictions

Newspaper article; Sarasota Herald Tribune, March 16, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...are asking for more restrictions on the amendment process. Proponents say the amendment process is out of control with petition drives...have a say on the new restrictions to the amendment process. If approved by the Legislature, the measures...
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The Natural Order of Life; Why the Federal Marriage Amendment Is Necessary

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 17, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...inherently transitory because it is subject to repeal. That is why a federal marriage amendment is critical. The amendment process takes time, but it is the only surety we have against the inevitability of the redefinition of marriage by states...
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Virginia House Approves Gay 'Marriage' Ban; Amendment Must Be OK'd Again Next Year

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 9, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...do not act, marriage as we have come to know it will be redefined through the judicial process." During the debate, several House Democrats said the amendment is discriminatory and will one day be considered as "shameful" as the days of racial...

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Fourteenth Amendment

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...without due process of law (a...restraining the federal government...the Fifth Amendment), and to...subsequent due process interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment did severely...the First Amendment were made applicable to the states by...of the due-process clause, in...
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Due Process of Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

DUE PROCESS OF LAW see Fourteenth Amendment . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Slaughterhouse Cases

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...property without due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment . The U.S. Supreme Court...it was held that the amendment did not intend to deprive the state of legal jurisdiction...property without due process...
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Egypt

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...States and remained active in the Middle East peace process. In 1989, Israel returned the last portion of the Sinai that it held, the Taba...Feb., 2005, Mubarak called for a constitutional amendment to permit the direct election of the president...
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Illinois , State, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1952 and 1956. Also during the 1950s the "gateway amendment" to the Illinois constitution simplified the states constitutional amendment process. In 1970, Illinois adopted a new state constitution that, among other reforms, banned discrimination...

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