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Under the Constitution (One Hundred Fifteenth Amendment) Bill, 2011, a Goods and Services Tax Dispute Settlement Authority was to be constituted for this purpose.
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment required states to provide all persons with equal protection of the laws (not equality per se), and the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed African Americans the right to vote.
There, the Court held that the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution -- which states that the right of U.S. citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race or color -- did not allow the State of Hawaii to limit to Native Hawaiians eligibility to vote in elections to elect trustees for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a state governmental agency.
The Nineteenth Amendment was an effort to put women on the same level as men with respect to voting, just as the Fifteenth Amendment was an effort to put African American men on the same level as white men.
On August 6, 2020, the Debtors and the Prepetition Lender entered into that certain Fifteenth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, dated August 6, 2020 (the “Fifteenth Amendment”), which provided for a limited forbearance on the Prepetition Loan Facility.