Sentence examples for amendment one of from inspiring English sources

When the House vote took place in May, 49 Republicans joined 170 Democrats in favor of the amendment, one of the strongest bipartisan showings on a controversial piece of legislation in recent history.

This Friday, Ireland is voting on whether or not to repeal the Eighth Amendment, one of the most draconian anti-abortion laws in the world, which states that a woman and her fetus have an "equal right to life".

Freedom of the press is a part of that amendment – one of the great markers of this democracy and a privilege people in totalitarian countries are persecuted without.

When Lincoln pays a surprise visit to the three political fixers who are rounding up House votes for the Thirteenth Amendment, one of them exclaims, "Well, I'll be fucked!" Uh, I don't think so.

The key phrase there is: "I think we need to seriously consider mobilizing a constitutional amendment process to overturn Citizens United (assuming the Supreme Court doesn't revisit it)." Since that would be an amendment to the First Amendment, one of the most cherished parts of the Bill of Rights, the chances of that happening are somewhere between zero and nil.

A Marine Captain who served as a prosecutor in Okinawa, he is ardently pro-Second Amendment — one of his campaign videos features a clip of him firing an AR-15 — and yet, as a former federal prosecutor who has dealt with the mayhem caused by armed criminals, he's campaigning to strengthen background checks.

Obama did, however, vote at least five times against Kennedy on amendments, one of which passed and has been partly blamed by the bill's backers, including Kyl, for the overall bill's demise.

Lately, human-life amendments have been supplanted by personhood amendments, one of which appeared on the ballot in Mississippi this month.

In his new book, Justice John Paul Stevens proposes six amendments, one of which would address the Citizens United ruling on campaign finance.

Reverend Ricky Woods eloquently issued a call to action when he said that his faith called him to oppose Amendment One because of our charge to stand up for "the least, the last and the lost".

And in this moment that we are in right now, it couldn't be more timely because 2020 is going to be a hundred years since the passing of the 19th amendment, one hundred years of suffrage.