• The Ludlow Amendment was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States which called for a national referendum on any declaration of war...
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  • representative democracy. The Ludlow Amendment was a proposed constitutional amendment drafted by Indiana congressman Louis Ludlow allowing for a referendum...
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    Louis Leon Ludlow (June 24, 1873 – November 28, 1950) was a Democratic Indiana congressman; he proposed a constitutional amendment early in 1938 requiring...
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  • for non-interventionism was not limited to the Republican Party. The Ludlow Amendment, requiring a public referendum before any declaration of war except...
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    The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII, also known as the Congressional Compensation Act of 1789) to the United States Constitution states that...
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  • California Ludlow, Colorado Ludlow, Illinois Ludlow, Iowa Ludlow, Kentucky Ludlow, Maine Ludlow, Massachusetts Ludlow, Mississippi Ludlow, Missouri Ludlow, Pennsylvania...
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    The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would, if added, explicitly prohibit sex discrimination...
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    multiple marriages until 1890. The Ludlow Amendment was proposed by Representative Louis Ludlow in 1937. This amendment would have heavily reduced America's...
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    The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime...
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    The Boland Amendment is a term describing a series of U.S. legislative amendments passed between 1982 and 1986, aimed at limiting U.S. government assistance...
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    that money bills should originate in the lower house (not subject to amendment by the upper chamber). Sherman sided with the two-house national legislature...
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  • Senator from North Dakota Louis Ludlow (1873–1950), U.S. Representative from Indiana pushed for the Ludlow Amendment Henrik Shipstead (1881–1960), U.S...
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    featured a four-story-tall stone panel inscribed with the text of the First Amendment as part of its exterior design. The Freedom Forum, a nonprofit organization...
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    Neutrality Acts 1935–1940 Ludlow Amendment 1970 Vietnam McGovern–Hatfield Amendment 1970 Southeast Asia Cooper–Church Amendment 1971 Vietnam Repeal of Tonkin...
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    This area of substantive constitutional law is governed by the Fifth Amendment, which is understood to require that property acquired via eminent domain...
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    "Liberty" amendment Ludlow amendment Parental Rights amendment School Prayer Single subject Victims' Rights Convention to propose amendments State ratifying...
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    purpose of the resolution was only intimidation. Nelson wanted to add an amendment forbidding Johnson from sending troops to fight in Vietnam unless Congress...
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    relationship to the federal government, and the shared process of constitutional amendment. Article VII establishes the procedure subsequently used by the 13 states...
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    country, but was debated in the United States in the 1930s as the Ludlow Amendment. An optional referendum is a class of referendums that is put to the...
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  • executive (Article II), and judicial (Article III) branches, and the Tenth Amendment provides that those powers not expressly delegated to the federal government...
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    The Ludlow Amendment, introduced several times to the House of Representatives by Louis Ludlow of Indiana between 1935 and 1940, proposed an amendment to...
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    Constitutional Amendment that would require a national referendum on a declaration of war. Several constitutional amendments, such as the Ludlow Amendment, have...
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  • The Cooper–Church Amendment was introduced in the United States Senate during the Vietnam War. The amendment sought to cut off all funding to American...
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    The Case–Church Amendment was proposed, as an amendment to several appropriations bills funding various departments of the United States Government, in...
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  • The Hughes–Ryan Amendment (Public Law 93–559 (1974)) was an amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, passed as section 32 of the Foreign Assistance...
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    purpose of the resolution was intimidation. Nelson wanted to insert an amendment to bar the president from sending troops to fight in Vietnam unless he...
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    Neutrality Acts 1935–1940 Ludlow Amendment 1970 Vietnam McGovern–Hatfield Amendment 1970 Southeast Asia Cooper–Church Amendment 1971 Vietnam Repeal of Tonkin...
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    2007, Baghdad airstrike associated with WikiLeaks in 2010 Kerry–Feingold Amendment Report to Congress on the Situation in Iraq Special Activities Division...
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  • Clark Amendment was an amendment to the U.S. Arms Export Control Act of 1976, named for its sponsor, Senator Dick Clark (D-Iowa). The amendment barred...
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  • Constitution to ensure its ratification and led to the adoption of the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights. Anti-Federalists feared the Constitution would lead...
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