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Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937) [1] [2] is an American politician, lawyer, and human rights activist. [3] Norton serves as a congressional delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, where she has represented the District of Columbia since 1991 as a member of the Democratic Party.
The Twenty-first Amendment or 21st Amendment may refer to the: Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, a 1967 amendment which introduced Sindhi as one of the official languages of India; Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, a 2001 amendment that introduced a constitutional ban on the death penalty
1. Short title This Act may be called the Constitution (Twenty-first Amendment) Act, 1967. 2. Amendment of Eighth Schedule In the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution— (a) entries 12 to 14, shall be re-numbered as entries 13 to 15 respectively, and (b) before entry "13" as so re-numbered, the entry "12. Sindhi". shall be inserted. [3] [4]
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The 21st is also the only constitutional amendment that repealed another one, that being the 18th Amendment, which had been ratified 14 years earlier. As is true for a state legislature when ratifying a proposed federal constitutional amendment, a state ratifying convention may not in any way change a proposed constitutional amendment, but must ...
Book bans. PEN America, a free speech group, recently named Florida as the No. 1 state for "book banning," a term conservatives hate but one many people use to describe book removals from public ...
Another example is in John Milton's 1649 book called The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, written after the First English Civil War to defend the actions and rights of the Parliamentary cause, in the wake of the execution of king Charles I. The English poet says: "No man who knows ought, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were ...
Andres Duany, an urban planner hired to draw a master plan for Vero Beach's downtown, walks toward 21st Amendment Distillery Feb. 5, 2024, with his dog, Bailey.