The phrase "amendment does not require" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts when discussing the necessity or lack thereof for a specific amendment.
Example: "The proposed changes to the policy indicate that the amendment does not require a majority vote for approval."
Alternatives: "amendment is not necessary" or "amendment is not needed."
The proposed amendment does not require the signature of the governor but would need to be approved by the voters in the state's August primary in the governor's race to take effect before the presidential election.
The court, after rehearsing a number of earlier decisions, observed that "the First Amendment does not require an educator to change the assignment to suit the student's opinion," as long as the assignment has a reasonable relationship "to legitimate pedagogical goals" and as long as the policy of no exemptions was applied evenly and was not a pretext for discrimination.
As TPM explains, it will be interesting to see how Scalia squares that posture with this decision he wrote in 1990: In 1990, Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith, concluding that the First Amendment "does not require" the government to grant "religious exemptions" from generally applicable laws or civic obligations.
It is therefore likely that the justices accepted the new case, Giles v. California, No. 07-6053, to make it clear that as long as the victim's unavailability as a witness was a foreseeable consequence of the murder, the Sixth Amendment does not require the state to prove the actual motive for the murder was to make the victim unavailable.
The First Amendment does not require that his manuscript be published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
These arguments were rejected by the Third Circuit, which ruled that the Seventeenth Amendment does not require primaries.
The amendment doesn't require the Defense Department to change its policy -- rather, it simply asks the secretary to review it.
In the absence of this process, they held that the Seventeenth Amendment did not require primary elections to fill vacancies, and more broadly gave state legislatures wide discretion as to how to hold elections; as such, the statute did not violate the constitution.
Roberts, writing for the court's conservative bloc, held otherwise: a school has a responsibility to discourage drug use, and the first amendment didn't require the school to tolerate such a sign.
Vote for Marriage NC has dismissed that example by asserting that the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the state's marriage amendment didn't require the removal of those protections to non-married relationships.
The ballot question says the amendment would create a "nonpartisan merit-based system that relies on professional qualifications instead of political influence," but the court said the amendment didn't require legislators to consider only professional qualifications or prohibit lawmakers from taking politics into account when considering possible judges.
