The two key provisions of the Platt Amendment required:
- The concession of Cuban territory for American military and naval bases.
- The permission to the Americans to intervene in the island to preserve order, life, property, and liberty.
The Cuban Constitutional Convention acceded to the demands, and the amendment started to regulate Cuban‐American relations until it was abolished in 1934.
The Platt Amendment, an amendment to a U.S. army support bill, set the terms under which the United States would stop its military invasion of Cuba (which had started in 1898 during the Spanish-American War) and "leave the government and power of the island of Cuba to its people." The Platt Amendment placed down eight requirements to which the Cuban Government had to agree before the withdrawal of U.S. forces and the shift of sovereignty would begin.
A major cause of the Protestant Reformation was the sale of indulgences by the Catholic Church. Martin Luther began early in his writings criticizing this practice in saying that the Pope had no authority or right to sell this type of indulgence.
In United States constitutional law, a Due Process Clause is found in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, which prohibits arbitrary deprivation of "life, liberty, or property" by the government except as authorized by law.
The national government could tax citizens and states to help pay for national projects. All it could do was request that state governments pay certain amounts to support the costs of the national government.
