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Meaning amendment meaning

What does amendment mean?

amendment

the act of amending or correcting a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)

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Simple sentences

The amendment was first proposed in 1789.
The Thirteenth Amendment freed all Negro slaves.
Some claim that full-body scanners violate the Fourth Amendment.

Movie subtitles

The Prohibition amendment is ratified by the necessary 36 states and becomes the law of the land.
For the first two weeks of the year men can still get a drink more or less publicly because although the 18th Amendment is in effect, the law has no teeth.
There's this thing called knocking. It's, like, protected in the First Amendment.
What likelihood of his amendment, lords?
Repeal the 14th and 20th amendment, make slaves out of women.
I ain't done so much business since the night they repealed the 18th amendment.
The constitution amendment would call for a government of three consuls.
I got a right to, without regard to race, creed or color according to the 14th Amendment.
You understand, of course. with the new amendment to the law, we must expect to be worked really very hard.
They invaded the privacy of my client a violation of the Fourth Amendment and the Federal Anti-Wiretapping Law of 1934.
This is the amendment of the second pavilion.
You must have heard of the 4th Amendment!
They're going to D.C. To challenge the committee on the basis of the First Amendment.
Ever hear of the First Amendment?
The way he'd look at me through his long thick eyelashes when I was vetoing an amendment.
One amendment, for example guarantees government support of scrap iron price levels.
The amendment has to be redrafted.
Harry's connection to Hedge's amendment.
I got a right to, without regard to race, creed or color. according to the 14th Amendment.
That's my right under the 5th Amendment of the US constitution.
They're going to D.C. to challenge the committee on the basis of the First Amendment.
Ever hear of the 1st Amendment?
He hasn't taken the Fifth Amendment, so this statement should be heard!
Why are you checking this? That. the 1st report received said that the fireplace had already been inspected. But then, in the new report handed over, there was an amendment.
It makes no difference. It'd take a Constitutional Amendment to get him out.
I mean, you must have heard of the 4th Amendment!
I have not taken refuge behind the Fifth Amendment, although I may do so.
Nothing's riding on this except the First Amendment of the Constitution. freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country.
My first action as President will be to have Cardinal Borusa draft an amendment to Article 17.
Hey, the neww television stations. Under amendment.
And the proof of the strength of the Equal Rights Amendment is that so many of you who would never do it before put on black tie tonight.
The key aspects are all in the Fourth Amendment.
Hit him with the Fourth Amendment, Laz.

News and current affairs

He favors a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, and hopes to balance the budget over eight years.
Since citizens' militias are anachronistic, gun owners now use the second amendment merely to defend individual gun ownership, as if that somehow offers protection against tyranny.
Most obviously in need of amendment is the view that minimally managed and regulated markets are both more stable and more dynamic than those subject to extensive government intervention.
Now, however, a new form of antitrust arrives - in the form of the Kanjorski Amendment, whose language was embedded in the Dodd-Frank bill.
The surprise decision by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to propose a constitutional amendment that would allow direct and competitive presidential elections may be a giant step for democracy in Egypt and the Arab World.
This is where rules that impose term limits on officeholders, such as the Twenty-Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, have their place.
Moreover, Pakistan shocked the global public-health community last year by adopting a constitutional amendment that led to the abolition of the national health ministry.
The First Amendment of the Constitution does not protect freedom of expression when it can be shown to create a risk of imminent violence.
But the ban was contested by the American Civil Liberties Union as an infringement of the First Amendment.
A higher level of economic, fiscal, and political integration will also compel the amendment of national constitutions.
Whenever proposals have surfaced for some sort of balanced-budget amendment to the US Constitution, proponents have typically included exemptions not just for war, but also for recessions.
Buchanan argued tirelessly for lower government spending, balanced budgets (even a balanced-budget amendment to the US Constitution), and streamlined regulation.
Even if Abe manages to relax the amendment requirements - no easy feat, given the likelihood that a popular referendum would reveal weak public support - he will probably have to leave the change to his successor.
Senator Richard Lugar has advised me that since there has been little or no objection to the amendment from the White House, he sees no reason why it will not pass the Senate.
But surely there can be a balance between Second Amendment rights and rational constraints on the ability of mentally unstable people to accumulate arsenals.
The Kanjorski Amendment is a very big stick.
In the US, a wise constitutional amendment forces even popular presidents to retire after two terms.
Elections can be made legitimate through a constitutional amendment shortening the presidential term, as proposed by Jimmy Carter in his recent mediation effort.
Worse still, the government is considering a constitutional amendment that would permanently strip nationality rights from thousands of Dominican of Haitian descent.
But before the amendment can enter into force, two-thirds of the 152 signatories to the original convention must ratify it.
The amendment adopted ten years ago would oblige countries to protect nuclear facilities and any nuclear material used, stored, or transported domestically.
The single most effective way to do so would be to ensure that the amendment to the CPPNM enters into force as soon as possible.

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