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    The Wright Amendment of 1979 was a United States federal law that governed traffic at Dallas Love Field, an airport in Dallas, Texas, to protect Dallas...
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    signed into law by Wright's friend, President Johnson. Wright also voted against the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Wright would later vote in...
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    Representative (later Speaker of the House) Jim Wright pushed a law through Congress, the Wright Amendment, which restricted air service at Love Field in...
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    Amendment had left the 56-seat long-haul restriction in place. In late 2004, Southwest began actively seeking the full repeal of the Wright Amendment...
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    proved that changes to the amendment were now politically viable. Southwest soon began campaigning to repeal the Wright Amendment, but was staunchly opposed...
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    the first carrier to fly from Love Field to destinations beyond the Wright Amendment five-state region after the opening of Dallas/Fort Worth International...
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    Express, and Legend Airlines for supporting the Shelby Amendment, which lifted Wright Amendment restrictions on flights to Alabama, Kansas, and Mississippi...
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  • $58 million in the second quarter of 2005. AA was a strong backer of the Wright Amendment, which regulated commercial airline operations at Love Field in Dallas...
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    The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791, along...
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  • such an amendment. In a 1991 law review article, United States law professor Richard George Wright argues that if a constitutional amendment leaves a...
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  • Airport in December 2010, and continued until after the repeal of the Wright Amendment in October 2014, when the airline leased two gates and established...
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    Fokker 100s in a 56-seat all-business class configuration to circumvent Wright Amendment long-haul flight restrictions from Dallas Love Field. The airline later...
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    business travelers, who wants to pay "full fare for the briefcase?" Wright Amendment, a US Federal law to protect one Texas airport (Dallas/Fort Worth International...
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  • big cities and has discouraged the creation of medium-sized cities." Wright Amendment, a U.S. Federal law to protect one Texas airport (Dallas/Fort Worth...
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    Harrison and Annette Strauss - was instrumental in renegotiating the Wright Amendment to revise flight restrictions at Love Field Airport, as well as implementing...
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    Ingraham v. Wright, 430 U.S. 651 (1977), was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the disciplinary corporal punishment policy of Florida's public...
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    from ABQ. The decline in service is attributed to the repeal of the Wright Amendment which only allowed air travel to Texas and airports in bordering states...
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    The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual...
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    List of Southwest Airlines destinations Nuts! Southwest Effect Southwest Airlines fleet Wright Amendment intrastate airline Texas Aeronautics Commission...
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  • rail in Texas. 1997 – Congress passes the Shelby Amendment, which eases some of the Wright Amendment restrictions on Love Field Airport. 2000 – December...
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  • of the Love Field travel restrictions that are better known as the Wright Amendment. In 1990, the High Tech Committee of the Chamber established the Kilby...
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    started operations in 2007, but it folded before the repeal of the Wright Amendment in 2014. On 16 April 2008, the American Airways Hangar and Administration...
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    The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution established a nationally standardized minimum age of 18 for participation...
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    to recognize Mirabel's potential, as no legislation similar to the Wright Amendment in the United States was enacted that would force airlines to use Mirabel...
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  • headquarters to Southwest Airlines. Under the Federal "Wright Amendment" and "Shelby Amendment" laws, no large jet air service was allowed before 2014...
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    The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would, if added, explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It was...
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  • Jeremiah Wright controversy gained national attention in the United States, in March 2008 after ABC News investigated the sermons of Jeremiah Wright who was...
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    Last Amendment, formerly known as The Crass Collective and Crass Agenda, is the working title of a series of collaborations by ex-members of the anarcho-punk...
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    the Equal Rights Amendment". National Archives: The Center for Legislative Archives. Retrieved 2013-05-20. "GRIFFITHS, Martha Wright (1912-2003)". Biographical...
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  • airline flight from Dallas Love Field to a destination beyond the Wright Amendment five-state region since the opening of Dallas/Fort Worth International...
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