Sentence examples for amendment changing from inspiring English sources

On its face, this appears to mean that an amendment changing the composition of the Senate would have to be ratified by every single state.

I once had occasion — long ago, at a reception after a speech by Justice Anthony Scalia — to ask Justice Scalia what would happen if an amendment changing the composition of the Senate were ever passed.

Republicans control both chambers of the Legislature, and even if the bill were to pass, a constitutional amendment changing the legislative schedule to annual sessions would have to be approved by Texas voters before it could take effect.

The council approved a general plan amendment changing the property's land use from private institutional to multi-unit residential, with a limit of 100 units.

And thanks to the Supreme Court's conviction that buying politicians is a form of speech, and therefore sacrosanct under the First Amendment, changing course will likely take no less than a constitutional amendment.

"So I have no use for a constitutional amendment or changing that at all".

In her dissenting opinion, Justice Ginsburg said that in its "expansive new reading" of the ex post facto clause, the majority misconstrued the Texas amendment as changing the amount of evidence the prosecution needed.

Instead, investors will be asked to approve several housekeeping amendments, including changing the parent company's name to 21st Century Fox from News Corp. News Corp. has not established a date for the split to be effective.

He was also the architect of the constitution's provisions for amendment, which made changing the document difficult, but not entirely impossible.

In the same way that the Constitution needed amendments to address changing realities — such as women's right to vote and prohibiting slavery — it is incumbent upon us to find a national song — if we are to have one — that speaks for all Americans.

Maybe a climate Cupid shot his arrows through the halls of the Senate, but at the end of last month, 53 GOP senators passed an amendment acknowledging the climate is changing, 15 approved an amendment saying humans have something to do with those changes, and five endorsed one saying human activity "significantly" contributes to climate change.