The phrase "amendment hard" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to the difficulty of amending something, but as it stands, it lacks context and clarity.
Example: "The process of passing new legislation can be amendment hard, requiring significant negotiation and compromise."
Alternatives: "difficult to amend" or "challenging to modify".
But politicians who talk up "libertarian populism" or "opportunity conservatism" or the "Rawlsian lens" and then end by calling for a Balanced Budget Amendment, hard money and a flat tax aren't actually reforming the Republican Party; they're just wrapping losing ideas in slightly smarter rhetoric than poor Mitt Romney was ever able to come up with.
This nightmare wouldn't be happening if the people's choice took office, and it's inconceivable why Americans, the press and even Democratic officeholders aren't screaming for a change in our presidential election system to popular vote, whether by constitutional amendment (hard) or the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (much easier and 60% already there).
The First Amendment requires hard choices about seriously conflicting yet equally foundational constitutional values: democracy, liberty, equality.
In short: a stark worldview that fuses, in varying degrees, millennialism, Second Amendment and hard-money advocacy, environmentalism and racism.
The anti-Magnitsky law continues policies adopted by the Kremlin after a wave of protest a year ago.However, the orphan amendment is harder to comprehend.
It's safe to say that the court's equal protection jurisprudence is currently in flux, heading in the direction of making 14th Amendment violations harder, not easier, to prove.
The show is drawn directly from transcripts of Bruce's routines from 1959 to his death in 1966, a period during which Bruce -- a First Amendment die-hard and savage wit -- fought drug and obscenity charges with furious onstage routines while simultaneously self-destructing.
Skinner said that she replied to the agency pointing out that her last amendment contained harder evidence.
Your move, GOP! Scarborough admirably points out that the gun-toting weirdies make the cause of Second Amendment proponents harder, and the job of the Secret Service more difficult as well.
The White House also needs to discourage disruptive amendments by hard-right conservatives, including Senator Jesse Helms, who has proposed that aid be cut off to school districts that refuse to let the Boy Scouts use their facilities.
Mr. Blunkett made his remarks in response to action in the House of Lords last week adding seven limiting amendments to hard-line antiterror legislation the government is rushing through Parliament.
