Sentences with phrase «argument against the amendment»

In replying, Europe Minister David Lidington put the following argument against the amendment:

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His argument on the legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment, for example, rests on a strained parsing of the Reconstruction debates intended to show that the Privileges and Immunities Clause (which the Supreme Court effectively eviscerated shortly after the Amendment's adoption) was intended to make the Bill of Rights operative against the states.

Now, Elia will have to weigh the board's arguments against Paladino's First Amendment right to free speech.

Now, Elia will have to weigh the board's argument for Paladino's removal against his first amendment rights.

If Paladino does not step down, as expected, the board will appeal to state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to remove him, forcing her to weigh his opponents» arguments of racism against his First Amendment right to free speech.

According to the Buffalo News, that process could take up to eight months, as Elia will have to «weigh the board's arguments against Paladino's First Amendment right to free speech.»

The Maryland lawsuit proposes a solution that some justices have pondered: an argument that gerrymanders violate the First Amendment, not the 14th, by retaliating against opponents who express contrary views.

You have in your packet a blue sheet that gives you the order of the day, so I won't belabor that too much, but I will just remind you that we're going to start out with a session on history this morning; then go to a lunchtime segment that will focus on some of the relevant federal constitutional issues, including evaluations of the federal attacks on and defenses of the Blaine amendments; then we will finish off the day with a session that will focus on litigation strategy related to these amendments and some of the arguments being made for and against them in that litigation, as well as a focus on how debates over faith - based initiatives and school vouchers are affected by these particular state constitutional restrictions.

Although the Blaine Amendments were closely associated with anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant bigotry in the 19th century, they made a handy argument against school vouchers in the 20th and 21st centuries.

I also don't agree with the way that proponents of s. 13 have used the support of white supremacists for this amendment as an argument against the change.

If there is a constitutional argument against mandatory gun ownership laws, it does not stem from the 2nd Amendment.

Within four weeks after the Bill is passed, a majority of the Parliamentarians who voted for the proposal prepare a «Yes» case (the arguments for making the amendments); and a majority of those who voted against it prepare a «No» case (the arguments for voting against the amendments).

Nebraska federal court considers a California broker's argument that Nebraska's («State») attempts to enforce its license law against her violated her First Amendment rights.