Sentences with phrase «amendment accepts that argument»

The Fourteenth Amendment accepts that argument and endows it with constitutional protection giving new meaning to the phrase that «all men are created equal.»

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Kirsten: There's an article in The New York Times about Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens basically making this argument that for the first 200 years of the country it was just accepted that the Second Amendment was understood to protect a well - regulated militia.

But their arguments could become relevant on the national stage when they contend the Colorado Supreme Court ruling, by prohibiting private religious K - 12 schools from accepting vouchers, is on a collision course with the federal First and Fourteenth Amendments.

But no court has accepted this argument because, now that public schools no longer have a Protestant character, the Blaine Amendments no longer function in a way that favors or disfavors particular religious groups.