Valeo, which stated that donating money was a form of expression protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution.
One of those values is the freedom to practice your religion -- a right that is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
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It is in the judiciary's prerogative to decide about the validity and membership of MPs and amend the conditions and measures on the amendment of the constitution.
Well, as far as major treaties go, the only thing they are left with is the 8th Amendment of the Constitution (the "cruel and unusual punishment" amendment).
He argues that background checks don't infringe on the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees the right of citizens to bear arms and is often cited by gun rights defenders.
And there are some meaningful, common-sense things that we can do to reduce gun violence in our communities at the same time respecting the rights provided by the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will begin an internal debate on its advertising policies in earnest on Thursday, just more than two months after its refusal of an anti-Muslim ad campaign was ruled to have violated the First Amendment of the Constitution.
"The gazetting of Amendment 19 of the Zimbabwean Constitution is indeed a major step towards the formation of an inclusive government in Zimbabwe, " he said in a written statement.
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Islamabad, 26 April 2012: Federal and Provincial Ministers, and senior officials from all the provinces agreed to expedite coordinated action towards achievement of Education For All Goals, and formulate necessary provincial legislation for enforcement of Article 25-A of the 18th Amendment of Constitution in the country.
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.
In December 2011, the lower house of the Czech parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, approved an amendment to the constitution allowing for direct presidential elections.
In November 2010, seventy percent of the voters of Oklahoma approved an amendment to the state constitution that would have barred shariah from being used in Oklahoma's courts.
The majority thus sanctions a highly intrusive and unjustified type of search, one meeting neither the warrant requirement nor the reasonableness requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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According to a new study released by Pew Research Center, only 62% of adults polled knew the decision affirmed the legality of a woman's right to abortion under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and only 44% of those polled under the age of 30 could say the case dealt with abortion.
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By law, a proposed amendment becomes part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the States.
It failed on the issue of the controversial Sixth Amendment to the constitution, which barred any Sri Lankan supporting a separatist cause from holding public offices or contesting elections.
The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution bestows the right on the federal government but also requires just compensation.
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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There were 36 states in 1865 (counting 11 states from the Confederacy), which meant that 27 states had to ratify the amendment for it to become part of the 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.
But few of us ever think about how the Ninth Amendment preserves all of our rights not cited in the Constitution.
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Oh, and there is one more area where Perry has been a vocal leader: the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which asserts that those powers not enumerated in the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people.
Also, in a new twist that analysts say illustrates the discord among the Republican party, Republican Senator John McCain, the party's 2008 presidential nominee, took to the Senate floor to criticise House Republicans who continue to push for a balanced budget amendment to the US constitution as the price of raising the debt ceiling.
The bill fell one vote shy of the two-thirds majority an amendment to the Constitution requires.
The taxes were temporary, not becoming permanent until the ratification in 1913 of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
But there is no better example of the living Constitution than the conservative re-casting of the Second Amendment in the last few decades of the twentieth century.
Republicans in the Senate failed by one vote to win passage of a balanced-budget amendment to the constitution.
In 1913, the 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
He said the truth a few weeks ago, (paraphrased), The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution does NOT protect women, nor was that the purpose of the Amendment when it was written.
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