Word: begun
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...Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex" -- simply refuse to go away. Fifty-one Senators are now cosponsoring an effort to launch the amendment again, and the National Organization for Women has begun a bicentennial drive to revive...
...President sends U.S. military forces into an area where they come under enemy fire. Congressmen denounce him for dragging the nation into battle "unconstitutionally." But it is too late; war has begun, and Congress has no choice except to let it continue...
...restrictive view of their authority than Jefferson did. Congress has declared war only five times, embroiling the U.S. in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War and World Wars I and II. Even in the 19th century, declared wars were far outnumbered by military actions begun at a President's command...
There are other contexts in which the Constitution offers little guidance: in genetic engineering, in the issues of the right to die and the right to life. At a time when doctors can perform surgery on a fetus before delivery, when exactly does the law consider that life has begun? Does that fetus have constitutional rights? What is death? Who has the right to be alive, and who has the right to choose death...
Besides Burma, the U.S. is the only nation in the world that has not formally begun converting to metric. There was a time, while Britain was the U.S.'s major trading partner, when it would have been economic suicide to consider switching to metric. In fact, it was precisely such arguments that torpedoed Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson's proposal that the U.S. adopt a decimal-based system in 1790. A study 31 years later by his successor, John Quincy Adams, was similarly unpersuasive. But in 1866, Congress, charged by the Constitution with establishing the nation's weights and measures...