Sentence examples for amendment applied from inspiring English sources

A federal judge dismissed the suit, saying the 13th amendment applied only to humans.

The idea, Mr. Powers said last week, was to conduct "an extremely aggressive exercise in the first amendment applied to local politics in Wyandotte".

Is this memo binding today?" Mr. Mukasey replied with a broader answer, that the Fourth Amendment applied in wartime or in peacetime.

In this role, Ginsburg played a crucial part in establishing that the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment applied to gender.

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, prevents a state from enacting laws that have the "purpose" or "effect" of advancing or inhibiting religion.

But the Dickey-Wicker amendment, applied originally to an appropriation bill passed in 1996, and renewed each year since, bans federal funding of the destruction of human embryos for research.Cell-by dateThat, unfortunately, leaves plenty of room for ambiguity.

The amendment applies to sales after Dec. 31, 2007.

The due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment "applies to persons, not only to citizens".

Today the amendment applies to most uniforms, tents, flags and processed food bought with Pentagon funds.

In fact, knife advocates contend that the Second Amendment applies to knives as well as guns.

If the government wants to tap the line, the Fourth Amendment applies and the government needs a warrant.