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Showing 1 to 20 of 692 for “"Amendment"”.
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The first amendment : a soldier's right?
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The first amendment : a soldier's right?
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Virginia and the Equal Rights Amendment
In 1972, the campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) began in the states. Many states quickly ratified the amendment but the ERA stalled fifteen states short of the necessary three-fourths to become part of the United States Constitution. Virginia was one of the states who did not …
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The Myth of the Second Amendment
… Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, which shifted from a constitutional provision grounded in collective security and concerns about tyranny to a modern doctrine emphasizing an individual right to possess firearms. It contends that post-Heller (District of Columbia v. …
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Ratification of the twenty-sixth amendment
… to secure ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which provided that the minimum voting age in all elections be lowered to eighteen. Common Cause, a nonpartisan, citizens' lobby, headquartered in Washington, D.C., was one of the principal organizations which lobbied for the passage of …
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Communist Party registration and the First Amendment.
… Communist Party registration vis-a-vis the First Amendment. This constitutional question came before the United States Supreme Court in the Communist Party case, 367 US 1 (1961). An analysis of the provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1950 provides the groundwork necessary for a discussion …
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Long-wavelength imaging and the 4th Amendment
Great levels of computational power and new kinds of sensors are being embedded into today's mobile devices. Through computation and new algorithms, the power of these sensors is being harnessed to form full images of scenes around corners and behind walls. This technology has great benefits and …
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Use of Lignite Fly Ash as a Soil Amendment
… growth were both adversely affected by fly ash amendments. Nearly all seedlings grown in fly ash amended soils were exhibiting needle die-back at the end of the six-month growing period. Soil analyses revealed the effects of fly ash amendments to include: 1) elevated pH, 2) excessive free salts, …
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Citizenship Education and the First Amendment in Public Schools
… which dealt with public school students' First Amendment right to speech. Cases were grouped according to the subject matter (underground newspapers, school-sponsored newspapers, textbooks and library books), and the results synthesized in light of specific rights (expression, prior restraint, …
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The Legislative and Judicial History of The Thirteenth Amendment
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:25:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0002070.pdf: 18705227 bytes, checksum: d16212160968f70095fed5e42859f46b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1950
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The framers, The Bill of Rights, and the Ninth Amendment
The Bill of Rights, The Framers, and the Ninth Amendment is an examination of current arguments for and against expanded recognition of the Ninth Amendment and unenumerated rights by the judiciary. A brief history of the Ninth Amendment is included. Also explored are the debates between the …
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Gaming advertising and the struggle for its First Amendment rights
From a historical perspective this research project will identify and explore the current legislation and regulations that apply to gaming advertising. The research begins with the first laws enacted to govern the Louisiana lottery in the late 1890s and their application and development over the …
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The Second Amendment and the Constitutional Right to Self-Defense
… contemporary judicial application of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. The dissertation develops the argument that as originally understood, the Second Amendment protected a right to keep and bear arms closely linked to and dependent upon service in the lawfully established …
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The companies amendment act, 1989: a panacea for insider trading?
... Our enquiries suggest that a large ring of people have dealt at the stock exchange using information (whether they have in all cases known it or not) which has ultimately derived from one particular Crown servant. The scale of the dealings in that ring is such that the value of the shares …
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Heavy metal redistribution in soils using compost as a soil amendment
Organic soil amendments such as compost can reduce the availability of heavy metal contaminated soil. The objectives of this study were (1) to evaluate the efficiency of compost as an soil amendment within heavy metal contaminated soil; (2) to determine the hypoaccumulation of heavy metals in the …
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The twenty-fifth amendment to the Constitution of the United States
… paper presents a study of the Twenty·-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. The Amendment was first proposed to Congress as Senate and House Joint Resolutions in February 1965. It became law in February 1967, when Nevada secured the distinction of being the 38th …
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