Word: altered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keen starts in 1915 with the idea of a "superstate" equipped with an executive council (the members of which should be chosen on a population basis) and full power to alter boundaries and settle disputes, an international World Court (espoused by the late U. S. President Harding in 1923), an international body of laws and an international army to enforce those laws. He advocates an international currency. The author traces the various schemes, from the prospectuses of the British League of Nations Society and the American League to Enforce Peace, to their fruition in the actual League of Nations...
...Opposition to any attempt to alter the Volstead Act for a greater alcoholic content in non-intoxicating beverages...
...alter the Immigration Act (several bills including one similar to the bill introduced in the Senate...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-W alter Hampden relighting Mansfield's torch in the classic romance of Edmond Rostand...
...will be noted that the proposal is in the form of a bill, not an amendment to the Constitution. Senator Borah and Representative Woodruff hope that a bill will be sufficient to secure their end. They claim the bill would affect the Supreme Court's jurisdiction, not alter its power. But since it is a bill, it could, if passed, be nullified by decision of the Supreme Court itself. Then it would have to be repassed in the form of an Amendment. The advocates of the bill feel sure that an Amendment would be unnecessary, because Daniel Webster once...