Sentence examples for amendment clause from inspiring English sources

But the central principle at work is the Fifth Amendment clause saying that if the government takes a person's property, it must pay "just compensation".

The group, joined by the Washington Legal Foundation, argued that forcing patients to wait years for a drug to go through the process of clinical trials deprived dying patients of their right to self-defense and violated the Fifth Amendment clause stating that people cannot be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.

But to rule that a "public use" is anything the legislature says it is (which, in substance, is the Supreme Court's ruling in the New London case), in effect writes the Fifth Amendment clause permitting government takings only for a "public use" out of the Constitution.

Sobriety checkpoints have come under attack by the American Civil Liberties Union on the grounds that they violate the Fourth Amendment clause against unreasonable search and seizure.

Section 2: Preliminaries: Amendment clauses.

This article suggests a less radical, and more immediately applicable, alternative; allowing the majority creditors to use the amendment clauses in their existing bonds to change certain nonpayment terms contained in those bonds (such as financial covenants or waivers of sovereign immunity) as a means of encouraging prospective holdouts to participate in the exchange.

He said the law violates both the First Amendment's clause ensuring religious rights and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause designed to ensure liberty.

Indeed, it would violate the First Amendment's clause protecting the free exercise of religion.

The rebel amendment on clause 119 has been tabled by the Lib Dem MP, and former care minister, Paul Burstow.

The Labour party has tabled a separate amendment saying clause 119 should be taken out of the bill altogether.

The federal courts have long held that such a message violates the First Amendment's clause prohibiting the establishment of a state religion, she said.