Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Introduced by Indiana's Representative Louis Leon Ludlow, it sought to amend the U. S. Constitution to make it illegal for Congress to declare war except in the case of armed invasion. According to the Ludlow proposal, at other times "the authority of Congress to declare war shall not become effective until confirmed by a majority of votes cast in a nationwide referendum...
...Passed, 324-to-23, without notable amendment, a bill embodying the President's plan to amend the National Housing Act (TIME...
...human activity -without taking into consideration hundreds of other factors-must necessarily be far from conclusive. But he feels that the evidence for sunspot influence is too good and too stimulating to be thrown out of court. "Definite investigations," he concludes, "should ultimately make it possible to substantiate or amend these statements. Some of them doubtless will be amended. I cannot but believe that accumulating evidence will show many of them valid. Ratification rests in the hands of science...
Contacting 594 men in the History, Government, and Economics departments in the hope of drawing a large crowd, the committee has mimeographed relevant parts of the Bill to facilitate discussion. The Congress will debate and amend the Bill during its session...
...Governor Browning's unit plan through the House last week, its supporters had to amend the rules so that instead of a two-thirds majority it needed only a simple majority to pass. When it finally passed, 51 to 44. there still remained a fair chance that the victory would prove a hollow one. Tennessee Courts were promptly asked to rule on a claim that five members of the majority which passed it had no right to their seats because they also held other State offices. Even if the five members are not unseated, thus nullifying the passage...