Sentence examples for a broad amendment of from inspiring English sources

A broad amendment of the 1961 zoning resolution is long overdue, said Norman Marcus, former counsel to the planning department and a member of the zoning committee of the American Planning Association.

Ministers propose a broad package of amendments.

Free speech rights have a broad history of First Amendment protection, and commercial free speech only slightly less so.

The Supreme Court's 1982 Plyler v. Doe decision —in a case involving undocumented alien children (i.e., children born abroad who had come to the United States illegally along with their parents, and who had no basis for claiming U.S. citizenship)—has also been cited in support of a broad application of Fourteenth Amendment jurisdiction to illegal aliens and their children.

Justice Harlan advocated a broad interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause.

Scalia has taken a broad view of the Eleventh Amendment, which bars certain lawsuits against states in the federal courts.

At the same time, he advocated a broad interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, arguing that it protected a wide range of rights not expressly mentioned in the United States Constitution.

Indeed Judge Cummings was sufficiently committed to a broad reading of the Second Amendment that, in the Emerson case, he dismissed the indictment of a very dangerous man for possession of a gun while subject to a restraining order.

This too has been a failure, and not just because guns can be imported across city boundaries and the courts have taken a broad interpretation of the 2nd Amendment.

In 2008, the Supreme Court's 5-4 decinion in District of Columbia v. Heller was widely considered a victory for the National Rifle Association NRAandand other gun rights advocates, helping to cement a broad interpretation of the Second Amendment and limiting legal grounds for gun control measures.

Citing "senior intelligence officials," the paper is reporting that, under a broad interpretation of the FISA Amendments Act, the NSA intercepts communications of U.S. citizens whose communications cross borders and mention foreign targets.