Sentence examples for amendment itself from inspiring English sources

The amendment itself got amended -- supporters are more likely to say gutted -- in 2000 and again in 2005 by voters who said its cap on state spending was strangling essential services.

The amendment itself would need 67 votes to pass.

The amendment itself permits seven years to elapse before it dies, if unratified".

What boundary did the First Amendment itself draw between legitimate and illegitimate protest?

For more than a hundred years, the answer was clear, even if the words of the amendment itself were not.

The amendment itself provides that no one "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself".

May's dangerous amendment must itself be stripped out of the bill.

The idea that a constitutional amendment might itself be unconstitutional is probably too audacious even for the Supreme Court.

While the act of destroying an American flag may be repulsive, the proposal of this amendment is itself unpatriotic and un-American.

Such a constitutional amendment would itself require supermajority support in the Legislature — a two-thirds vote in both the State House and the Senate — and endorsement after that by the voters.

The sweeping language of the First Amendment is itself inherently contradictory, guaranteeing free speech and the free exercise of religion while at the same time barring the government from making any law "respecting the establishment of religion".