Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of the other legislative aims outlined in President Johnson's State of the Union message drew such enthusiastic applause from Congress as his proposal to amend the Constitution so as to give Representatives four-year terms. While formidable opposition was expected in the Senate, most thought that the House would approve quadrennial elections. Last week, in hearings before the House Judiciary Committee, it was clear that the Representatives had had second thoughts...
...bill, introduced into the House by nine state representatives, would amend two nineteenth-century statutes forbidding any individual or group to sell or publicize means of birth control. Those statutes, unlike the Connecticut law recently overturned by the Supreme Court, do not expressly prohibit the use of contraceptives...
...terms so that the House would be responsive and responsible to the will of the voter. If neither excess is inconceivable today, neither safeguard is wholly necessary or suitable to contemporary America. Last week, as he promised in his State of the Union address, Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to amend the Constitution so as to abolish the Electoral College and give Representatives four-year terms...
Before the Faculty voted to amend the CEP plan, it required students wishing to avoid the lower level Gen Ed course in the Natural Sciences to take either one departmental course plus one upper level Gen Ed course, or two departmental courses plus a course fulfilling the requirements for an upper-level Gen Ed course...
...Thanks for your review of my opera Miss Julie [Nov. 12]. Because I do not want to bite the hand that feeds me, I'd like to amend (or at least amplify) the phrase that "Utah is a boring state." No state, by definition, is in itself boring. As for The State of Boredom, to me it is synonymous with tranquillity (i.e., lack of distraction), which most artists will concur is the first requisite for getting anything done...