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that the action was time-barred by the statute of limitations. Underwriters argued its action was timely because it was filed less than two years after it made its final payment towards attorney fees. The trial court agreed with ProBuilders that the clause in its policy relieving it of defense

two or more independent clauses and no dependent clauses. • Complex sentence: has one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. • Compound-complex sentence: has two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent classes. You are all probably wondering what an independent clause and a dependent clause are. Well, a clause contains a subject and a predicate. There are two types of clauses: an independent clause and a dependent clause. An independent clause is a complete thought that

religion: A public official allowing the deputy clerk to sign a same-sex marriage license does not violate the “Lemon Test”. However, making adherence to a religion can prohibit religion. Justice O’Connor concurred, that the Establishment Clause can prohibit in two principle ways and “One is excessive *688 entanglement with religious institutions, which may interfere with the independence of the institutions, give the institutions access to government or governmental powers not fully shared

Branch a. Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18) This clause was created to give the Congress powers to do everything that is considered as necessary and important. With this clause, Congress can create laws and have power to make actions in situations where the Constitution does not give permission to act. The clause is also called the Elastic Clause. The draft of this clause brought disputes between anti-federalists, who believed that the clause would give government too much

arbitration clause read “Disputes arising in connection with this agreement shall be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the Director General of the World Health Organization”. The Director-General of the WHO refused to act as appointing authority. As a result, the ICC appointed an arbitrator following the refusal. The ICC’s appointment of the arbitrator was upheld by the Swiss Federal Tribunal. 3. Non- Mandatory Words Pathology also arises in an arbitration clause if it is contained

2016). This check was deemed necessary by the vague eighteenth clause in Article One, Section Eight of The Constitution giving Congress the power to “make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.” The intention of this paper is to define what this clause means

since the nineteen-seventies. In Article I, Section Eight, of The United States Constitution the Commerce Clause is introduced. The Commerce Clause gives congress the power to regulate interstate commerce between the United States and foreign nations. The Clause has been used multiple times throughout United States history. Gibbons vs. Ogden was one of the first times the Commerce Clause came into play which changed the federal government’s role in interstate commerce. Because of this, the federal

"life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Slavery had been enshrined in the Constitution through provisions such as Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, known as the Three-Fifths Compromise, which detailed how each state 's total slave population would be factored into its total population count for the purposes of apportioning seats in the United States House of Representatives and direct taxes

two important clauses pertaining to religion. The establishment clause and the free exercise clause. The establishment clause prohibits the state from passing laws to aid a religion or show preference for one religion over another, the free exercise clause prohibits the state from interfering with the individual religious freedom. Schools are not exempted from these clauses as schools must maintain neutrality when it comes to religion. The school is in violation of the first clause; the Establishment

day. This document of course is not perfect and has many controversial clauses throughout it. These clauses, woven into the Constitution, have been considered ignored, misunderstood or misapplied. Some people merely want the correct meaning to be restored by educating the judiciary, others wish to amend the constitution so as to correct the way the constitution is applied. One in particular is the Necessary and Proper Clause. Over time, Congress has used what is considered its greatest stretch of