But opponents say the measure would violate the Second Amendment, the clause in the US Constitution that refers to the right of citizens "to keep and bear arms".
Uses the Fourteenth Amendment, Equal Protection clause.
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The Center for Constitutional Rights claims stop-and-frisk violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures as well as the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which is often invoked to fight laws seen as racially discriminatory.
The Center for Constitutional Rights claims the stop-and-frisk policy violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures as well as the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which is often invoked to fight laws seen as racially discriminatory.
The lawsuit claims the policy violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures, as well as the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which is often invoked to fight laws seen as racially discriminatory.
The Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of several individuals, claims the policy violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures, as well as the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which is often invoked to fight laws seen as racially discriminatory.
Distributor Authentic Beverages, craft brewer Jester King, and brewpub Zax challenged these and other rules as violations of the First Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Commerce Clause.
Peers then turn to the third reading of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill - where there may be an attempt to press an amendment for a "sunset clause" on the changes it makes to planning powers to impose a quota for affordable housing in new developments.
Not surprisingly, this argument concludes by warning against the slippery slope: if you outlaw sharia because it includes some dirty water around the globe, you will have effectively outlawed all such religious and private adjudicative bodies unless you are going to discriminate against the law of Muslims, which would violate the First Amendment and the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution.
If courts adopted this reasoning, what would stop them from limiting the First Amendment's speech and press clause to the use of 18th-century communication technology?
The federal lawsuit alleges that the U.S. government's takeover and financial bailout of AIG was in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the California ban on gay marriage violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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The business owner can also argue that the amount of money seized from his bank accounts violates the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
There, the justices are weighing whether the University of Texas' affirmative-action program, which the school says can give an edge to some minority applicants, violates the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause.
Soon after the Colorado Legislature passed the statute, "sidewalk counselors" -- anti-abortion activists -- sued, challenging the constitutionality of the "knowingly obstruct" clause under the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendments.
Their chief lawyer, Bernard Cohen, had based his case in the end on the equal-rights clause of the 14th amendment, and was keen that the Lovings should listen to him speak.
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It would be an unconstitutional "entanglement" problem (violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment) if a secular court had to get into the business of deciding what Jewish law or Catholic canon was and what it said about a given dispute.
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch said on Tuesday that he was "a strong supporter of the second amendment" - referring to a clause in the US Constitution on the right to bear arms.
Mr Chope's amendments five and eight were agreed without a vote, but amendment nine - which would have scrapped a clause allowing council officers to require someone to provide their name and address - was rejected by 145 votes to 57, a majority of 88.
His favourite clause of the constitution was the 14th amendment, which guarantees due process and equal protection of the laws.
"My purpose was to make a statement in support of the Second Amendment, " she said before the vote, referring to the clause in the US Constitution that mentions the right of citizens "to keep and bear arms".
That exception is triggered in a claim of a violation of the Establishment Clause and when there is a specific legislative grant for spending that implicates the First Amendment.
She said the health secretary's duties as currently defined in the bill were "neither prescriptive nor exhaustive" and therefore the amendment "would not give the secretary of state a new power to do anything that the clause does not already accommodate".
The amendment, by Michael McMahon, Labour MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, would have put a clause in the Ethical Standards of Public Life (Scotland) Bill acknowledging the importance of marriage in raising children, while also acknowledging the need to avoid stigmatising children from "alternative family units".
At committee stage, peers voted down an amendment the government had promised to defuse opposition to the bill in the Commons - to add a "sunset clause" - leaving the MPs that accepted assurances that it would be added rather peeved.
The amendment, tabled by psychiatrist and crossbench peer Baroness Hollins, called for the words to be inserted into a clause about the duty of the secretary of state, the NHS Commissioning Board and clinical commissioning groups to improve the quality of services.
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