Clarence, who seemed to have his own reasons for the amendment he had proposed, still struggled against this offer, but was at last, from fear of offending the honest steward, obliged to accede.
To prevent this, he writes, he offered an amendment that acts done under the authority of one or more States should not be deemed treason or punished as such; but this provision was not adopted.
The resolutions disapproving the proposed amendment were passed unanimously, both in the House of Delegates and Senate.
Instead of asserting sovereignty to judge, the Massachusetts Legislature passed in 1809 a resolve proposing an amendment of the Constitution prohibiting the laying of an embargo beyond a limited period.
He and Randolph, the one who brought the plan forward, thought the Constitution agreed on needed amendment and wished another convention.
He was particularly opposed to Patterson's plan, "being fully convinced that no amendment of the confederation leaving the States in possession of their sovereignty could possibly answer the purpose.
The amendment abolishing it forever was passed in the manner required in the Constitution by all the States that had refused an obedience to the United States laws.
Neither he, however, nor any of his party took any measures to have an amendment of the Constitution to sanction it.
At the close of the proceedings he urged an amendment that removed the objections of some members, which was agreed to unanimously.
He thought he had obtained an amendment to the Bill which prevented the I.
We may point out that an amendment to the 1893 Home Rule Bill, designed to safeguard such marriages, was rejected by the vote of the Irish Nationalist party.
I was soon after enabled to pass an amendment that where there was more than one wife, if one wished to leave, their husbands had no control over them.
Gladstone's motion is the most impudent assault on the Crown which any ex-minister ever made; and Stanley's amendment is an illogical surrender of our best defence.
I hope there is a good article on the Amendment Cases in the 'E.
Parliament met on the 21st, and, as had been foreseen, the Government was defeated on an amendment to the Address.
On the second reading it was negatived; a dissolution and a general election followed; and on the meeting of Parliament, in June the Ministry were defeated on an amendment to the Address, and resigned.
Parliament met on August 4th, and on a simple motion of want of confidence, as an amendment to the Address, the Ministry was defeated.
I must throw myself and the cause of law amendment on your kindness, under a great evil which has befallen us.
Early in the session the Assembly assented to the amendment to the Articles of Confederation proposed at the late session of Congress, which substituted population for a land valuation as the basis of representation and of taxation.
To this amendment the House agreed, and there, but for Madison, the matter would have ended.
It is pretty certain that if some radical amendment of the single one cannot be devised and introduced, one or the other of these revolutions, the latter no doubt, will take place.
Jefferson was so sensitive to this constitutional objection that he proposed to meet it by an amendment to the Constitution; but it was soon evident that the unwritten law of manifest destiny did not need the appeal to the ballot-box.
The House sent back the bill with an amendment substituting the secretary of state for the succession in the possible vacancy instead of the presiding officers of the two houses of Congress.
The rejection of the amendment naming the secretary of state as the proper person to succeed to the presidency, in the improbable event supposed, was nevertheless resented by the Republicans as a direct reflection upon Mr. Jefferson.
The wording of the final Japanese amendment was: "By the endorsement of the principle of equality of nations and just treatment of their nationals.
It was publicly asserted later on that the Japanese decided to abide by the rejection of their amendment and to sign the Covenant as the result of a bargain on the Shantung dispute.
This amendment was inveighed against by the Italian delegation in the name of every principle professed and transgressed by the world-mending Powers.
Could the Rumanian delegates not open their minds to Colonel House, who took the amendment so much to heart?
They ended by refusing to withdraw their modified amendment and calling for a vote.
And consequently, whenever nine, or rather ten States, were united in the desire of a particular amendment, that amendment must infallibly take place.
And yet such a council has been warmly contended for as an essential amendmentin the proposed Constitution.
But every amendment to the Constitution, if once established, would be a single proposition, and might be brought forward singly.
It, moreover, equally enables the general and the State governments to originate the amendment of errors, as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side, or on the other.
In the opinion of the Committee it is very important that a similar definition should be included in any amendment of the New Zealand Act.
Twelfthly, To make provision for the amendmentof the article of union whenever it should seem necessary, the assent thereto of the national legislature to be required.
Upon this the House divided again; when there appeared for the original motion only one hundred and thirty-two, but for the amendment one hundred and fifty-one.
The Opposition mean to move an amendment to the Address, which they expect to carry by a larger majority than the last.
The speech was a very milk-and-water production, and scarcely afforded a peg to hang an amendment upon.
The Duke of Wellington proposed an important amendment (which he would afterwards have withdrawn, but his friends would not let him), and he was beaten by fourteen.
The House of Commons knows nothing of the argument, and rejected Goulburn's amendment to have the proceedings before the Privy Council laid upon the table, voting the address merely because Government opposed it.
A word from Stanley would have made Peel abstain from moving his amendment or withdraw it.
Speculation already began last night as to the Address, on which some pretend no amendment will be moved, others that one will, which as certainly will be carried.
An amendment to the bill was offered which should abrogate the Missouri Compromise and permit the citizens of the Southern States to take and hold their slaves within any of the new Territories or States.
The Civil Rights Bill, which made the negroes citizens of the United States, was passed in 1866, and shortly afterward the fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted.
As early as 1798, he made his first political speeches in Kentucky advocating an amendment to the State Constitution, providing for the gradual emancipation of the slaves.
The love of liquor, and the disinclination to give it up, still lurked in his heart, and prevented him from setting about his amendment in earnest.
Lord Grenville will positively not take a line to render it difficult for Mr. Pitt and him to act together; he will move noamendment to the Address.
The House agreed with him and negatived the amendment without a division.
On the 12th he threw caution to the winds, and stated with an oath that there was no address that Pitt could frame on which he would not propose an amendment and divide the House.
Those who voted for the amendment might have contemplated a larger exercise of power by Congress than mere emancipation, but they did not avow it on the floor of the Senate when the measure was pending.
Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, contended that the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution had given no power to Congress to confer upon free negroes rights and privileges which had not been conceded to them by the states where they resided.
Senator Cowan held that the second clause of the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution was limited to the breaking of the bond by which the negro slave was held by his master.
The Sumner amendment having been adopted, all the Democrats turned against the bill and it was lost by 33 to 19, not two thirds.
The second clause of that amendment was inserted for some purpose, and I would like to know of the Senator from Delaware for what purpose?
All that the Thirteenth Amendment did was to put the slave population on the same footing on which the free negroes already stood.
That of constitutional amendment was the best of all because it removed the subject-matter from the field of dispute at once and forever.
The minister further declared that he did not think that such an amendment could obtain a seconder.
The Articles of Confederation could not be amended except by a unanimous vote of the states; and this made their amendment almost impossible.
Footnote 11: This clause has been cancelled by Amendment XIII.
After the amendment has at length made its way through the legislature, it must be ratified by a vote of the people at the next general election.
By the twelfth amendment to the constitution, declared in force in 1804, the present method was adopted.
Disgusted with the immorality of the age and the disregard to religion, they anticipated an amendment in the state of society.
The committee think that this distinction in the condition of the two descriptions of property is not just; and that it ought to be remedied by some safe and cautious amendment of the law.
This amendment becomes the more needful since Senators argue that by the principles of public law the intolerable cruelties of the Rebellion may be retaliated.
The vote on the Amendment of the Constitution was a memorable and glorious event in your history.
He argued that we were about to have a Constitutional Amendment which would supersede everything; that therefore this proposition was unnecessary, if not injurious.
The Constitutional Amendment was adopted by both houses organized according to this rule.
The Constitution declares that an Amendment shall become to all intents and purposes a part of the Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the States.
With much amendment and revision, this system appears to be to-day substantially in effect, with what good results opinions differ.
