Sentences with phrase «whole purpose of the amendment»

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Critics have historically argued that the committees have no real purpose beyond being a kind of «mini-me» image of the Commons as whole, always dominated by a government majority and chair, and with over 99 % of ministerial amendments moved at the Committee or report stages, and a success rate for non-government amendments of below 1 %.

I gather you are agreeing with me that treating the finding of an unspecified aggravating fact as an element of a crime, as Cunningham does for Sixth Amendment purposes, would render the whole triad system invalid even if the jury does make the finding, either on due process principles such as I suggested or separation of power principles such as you suggest.

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.