With bipartisan support, they enacted a comprehensive law to help curb gun violence and mass shootings that does not infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves and hunt.
If they do that, we can respect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens while helping to keep the irresponsible few from causing massive harm.
With 75 percent of the states in agreement (at the time, there were 48 states in the U.S.), the amendment became the law of the land.
We are the party of equality under the law, of the 14th Amendment as written, and of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as written.
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The judge in the California case agreed with the company's argument that the nondisclosure provisions of the national security letter law violate the First Amendment protection of free speech.
Third is ignorance among these armies of administrators of both First Amendment law and, perhaps more importantly, the moral principles and philosophy upon which that law is based.
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SEIU, the latest in a line of cases protecting the First Amendment rights of workers who are required by state law to pay union dues.
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The law removes certain works from the realm of First Amendment free speech, but all copyright law does that.
Menino's critics are right about his initial misuse of zoning law being a violation of the First Amendment, but after backing down on his threats, the mayor maintained he did not welcome Chick-fil-A in Boston.
The U.S. Supreme Court, as expected, struck down a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children, saying video games are protected under the First Amendment and the law was an unconstitutional restriction of the freedom of speech.
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Such public discussion of a law or amendment is unprecedented in our history.
Gore, who is running against Republican nominee George W. Bush -- a longtime friend of the NRA -- maintains he supports Second Amendment rights for law-abiding citizens but favors more restrictive laws to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and children.
Still there are signs of bipartisan support on Capitol Hill for updates to Fourth Amendment law, which hasn't undergone a serious overhaul since the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.
At the time the Second Amendment was written, the common law view of the right of self-defense inherited from England was very limited.
Labour urged the government to accept an amendment seeking the introduction of "Clare's law" in memory of Clare Wood, a Salford woman strangled and set on fire by her ex-partner in 2009.
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.
Lincoln stretches the limits of law and ethics to cobble together enough votes for the passage of the 13th Amendment.
By law, a proposed amendment becomes part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the States.
The bills have been strongly supported by lobby groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, which fear that the protections offered by the First Amendment are being infringed by the unfettered use of libel law in non-American jurisdictions.
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Louis Woodhill, following on the work of Art Laffer, developed a framework for judging whether any given amendment to current tax law pays for itself or is self-defeating by analyzing the change in the present value of revenues discounted out to the infinite horizon produced by the tax amendment.
By not simply adding 2012 and 2013 to the current subparagraph (B), Congress has created confusion out of what should have been a very straightforward amendment to existing law.
It found that roughly 10 percent of those currently in uniform would leave the armed forces if the proponents of the amendment to the NDAA succeed in repealing the current law.
But passing an amendment saying that a big chunk of the transparency provisions of the law shall not take effect means it will now take an act of Congress to narrowly target any transparency fixes.
But on Friday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso sent a letter to Mr Orban warning that the changes in Hungary - called the Fourth Amendment - could be incompatible with EU law and the principle of the rule of law.
But for those used to the defence of free speech entrenched in America's First Amendment, English law seems anything but fair.
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Last week's protest in Amman and the dissolution of parliament come amid opposition anger at an electoral law amendment passed in July.
In 1986, The Electronic Communications Privacy Act updated federal wiretapping law in an effort to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of cell phone users.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit last May handed the federal government a major victory when it largely rejected First Amendment challenges to the new federal law that strictly regulates the labeling of tobacco products.
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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.
As strange as the case is, experts said it touches on a common challenge in law enforcement: deciphering intent without running afoul of the First Amendment right to free speech.
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