Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borah: "If that be true, is it not the orderly thing to do, so long as we profess to live under a constitutional government, to amend the Constitution in the manner provided by the Constitution itself? Can the Senator conceive of anything more demoralizing and undermining to the good citizenship of the people than to have a solemn pledge in the Constitution and to have great Senators stand upon the floor of the Senate and say the people are going to have what they want regardless of whether it is constitutional...
...resolution to amend the U. S. Constitution by adding the following article...
...issue, without being able to get as far as MM. Briand and Doumer got last week?without being able to get the Chamber to indorse any program whatever for recouping the finances of France. Therefore, M. Briand's triumph was great. The Senators, eager to help him, prepared to "amend" the crazy-quilt bill into something workable. It was considered certain that they will stretch the constitutional limits of their amending power to the uttermost. Presumably when the bill goes back to the Chamber it will embody most of the measures for "indirect taxation" desired by Finance Minister Doumer (TIME...
...that the Republican members of the Senatorial finance committee have graciously allowed their Democratic colleagues to amend the original measure, the tax-reduction bill seems destined for smooth sailing in the upper chamber. For, despite the fact that the new tax schedule embodies all the essentials of the unsuccessful Mellon plan of last session, there is no organized opposition to its passage...
...brief, they asked Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson to summon a special session for Jan. 4 that they might: 1) provide funds to oust the tick from Texas steers; 2) provide funds to oust the hoof and mouth disease from the same; 3) "amend the highway laws of this State to such an extent as will, in the judgment of the Legislature, sufficiently protect the interests of the people and promote the establishment of an efficient system of public highways...