Sentence examples for amendment or amendments from inspiring English sources

Amendments of these bylaws may be adopted and amendments of the charter requested by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the authorized number of members of the board at any duly held meeting of the board if the members of the board have been given prior written notice of the meeting and the notice has contained a copy of the proposed amendment or amendments.

True, Proposition 59 suggests that an amendment or amendments would reverse Citizens United and "other applicable judicial precedents" — a reference mainly to Buckley vs. Valeo, a 1976 decision holding that individuals could spend unlimited amounts of their money on independent political expenditures.

Should it be the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, or the amendment's immunities clause?

The constitutional test, I think under either the Fifth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, is voluntariness.

On the other hand, there are those who think that it doesn't really matter — who think that Schwarzenegger, amendment or no amendment, will find a way.

On the other hand, there are those who think that it doesn't really matter who think that Schwarzenegger, amendment or no amendment, will find a way.

Had those who drew and ratified the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment known the components of liberty in its manifold possibilities, they might have been more specific.

The United States has been fortunate in that it has managed to prevent most Islamic agitators from entering the country, but where they have been active they have been treated harshly — First Amendment or no First Amendment.

We see no reason why the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, as much a part of the Bill of Rights as the First Amendment or Fourth Amendment, should be relegated to the status of a poor relation in these comparable circumstances.

"My concern about the new clause... is that it will not be subject to any amendment, or discussion and then amendment, by either house," said the Earl of Errol.

"For about almost thirty years, the Supreme Court has held that in order to make out a claim of infringement on the right to vote under the Constitution — under the Fourteenth Amendment or the Fifteenth Amendment — the plaintiff has to show intentional discrimination," Gardner said.