Amendment

Conservatives rally around the Tenth Amendment | The Daily Caller ...

'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people'

Officers Violate 4th Amendment, Make Up Lie : Dispatches from the ...

Here's an appalling story of sheriff's deputies in San Luis Obispo, California conspiring to fake a police report and invent a reason why they violated the 4th amendment. A man was target shooting on his own property in an ...

GOP-backed health care amendment removed from Florida ballot ...

Calling the wording of a Republican-backed constitutional amendment on health care "manifestly misleading," a Circuit Court judge in Leon County has tossed it off the November ballot. The proposal had been drafted and put forward by the ...

Florida Judge Blocks Proposed State Constitutional Amendment On ...

A Florida judge "blocked a proposed [state] constitutional amendment that targets the federal health-reform law, saying Florida Republican lawmakers included wording in the proposal that would mislead voters," according to Health News ...

Sharia in a First Amendment Society | FrontPage Magazine

Would the constitution framers have countenanced the erection of a statue of King George on the site of the Boston Massacre?

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Second Amendment and Unmarked Firearms

This appeal presents a single issue, whether Defendant Michael Marzzarella's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(k) for possession of a handgun with an obliterated serial number violates his Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. ...

House Passes Amendment Exempting Some Drillers From Moratorium ...

The House just approved an amendment to an oil spill response bill that would exempt drilling companies from an Obama administration moratorium on deepwater drilling if they comply with Interior Department safety regulations. ...

Hypothetical reasoning, the second amendment and the soda creek ...

It's a song and dance that we on the right have grown to be accustomed with concerning second amendment rights and the press. Virulent anti-gun groups and mainstream press outlets essentially spout the same talking points.

Amendment # 9 Ordered Off The Florida Ballot By a Tallahassee Judge

A Florida judge has stripped from the November ballot a constitutional amendment that would have blocked the state from implementing a health care plan similar to President Barack Obama's federal plan.

Sentencing Law and Policy: Third Circuit rejects Second Amendment ...

The Third Circuit has a very detailed and interesting discussion of Heller and the Second Amendment's impact on gun possession prohibitions and regulation today in US v. Marzzarella, No. 09-3185 (3d Cir. July 29, 2010) (available here). ...

Amendment to Prop. M to be on November ballot

A proposed amendment to Proposition M will be on the November ballot, the San Diego City Council decided in a unanimous vote on July 26. The amendment would remove the development restriction placed by 1998's Prop. M that limits Pacific Highlands Ranch to 1,900 units until the connector between Interstate 5 and Highway 56 is built. Scott Tillson spoke on behalf of San Diego for Responsible ...

Amendment 4 will not cost jobs

As an ardent proponent of Amendment 4, the Hometown Democracy amendment to our state's constitution we'll be voting on in November, I find myself encouraging fellow believers in the face of mounting opposition.

Amendment to Prop M headed for November ballot

The amendment to Proposition M will go through to the November ballot, San Diego City Council decided in a unanimous vote on Monday, July 26. The amendment seeks to remove the development restriction placed by 1998s Prop M that limited Pacific Highlands Ranch to 1,900 units until the linkage was made between Interstate 5 and Highway 56.

Amendment # 9 Ordered Off The Florida Ballot By a Tallahassee Judge

A Florida judge has stripped from the November ballot a constitutional amendment that would have blocked the state from implementing a health care plan similar to President Barack Obama's federal plan.

Amendment gives Colo. chance to vote on national health care reform

DENVER - Coloradans may have the opportunity this fall to weigh in on the recent health care legislation passed by Congress. Roughly 130,000 signatures in support of the Right to Health Care Choice amendment to Colorado's Constitution were turned into the Secretary of State's office on Friday afternoon.

ARCURI AMENDMENT TO HELP COMMUNITIES STREAMLINE LOCAL GOVERNMENT PASSES IN COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON, DCU.S. Rep. Michael A. Arcuri (NY-24) successfully offered an amendment that would help local communities streamline government and foster economic development during the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructures consideration of the Economic Revitalization and Innovation Act of 2010 (H.R. 5897) this afternoon.

Class Size Amendment Means More Portables

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- New class size amendment restrictions in Florida mean more portable classrooms around Central Florida schools. The amendment passed in 2002, but this year, lawmakers want no more than 18 students in classrooms up to 3rd grade.

Personhood Amendment

Colorado voters will once again be at the center of the abortion debate this election cycle. The Personhood amendment is back on the ballot for the second time. And proponents of the controversial amendment, which if passed could ban abortions, say theyre hoping an energized Republican base will tip the balance in their favor. Bente [...]

Court kills Amendment 9 - soon after erasing Amendment 7

A Leon County Circuit judge struck from the November ballot on Thursday a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at exempting Florida from the federal health care overhaul, calling the measure placed by the Republican-ruled Legislature manifestly misleading to voters.

Iowa GOP: Original 13th amendment would strip Obama's citizenship for accepting Nobel Peace Prize

Reintroducing amendment would strip President Jimmy Carter and others of citizenship.