The phrase "amendment provides for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the provisions or stipulations outlined in a legal amendment or document.
Example: "The amendment provides for the protection of individual rights and liberties within the framework of the law."
Alternatives: "amendment stipulates" or "amendment outlines".
Finally, the last section, mirroring the approach of the Thirteenth Amendment, provided for enforcement.
Half of the Senate's 100 members run for re-election every three years; a recent constitutional amendment provided for four new seats for non-Muslim minorities.
Cruz also cited Tribe in his brief for District of Columbia v Heller, a landmark 2008 case in which the court held that the second amendment provided for an individual right to bear arms.
In rejecting Mr. Ghailani's claim, the judge said that while the Sixth Amendment provided for the right to counsel, the "right to counsel of choice does not extend to defendants who require counsel to be appointed for them".
After more talks in South Africa, the ruling ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) at least agreed on a constitutional amendment providing for a new post of prime minister, to be held by the MDC's leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.
As head of the coalition government, he brought about better trade relations with the Allied powers and procured a constitutional amendment providing for woman suffrage and universal suffrage in local and lower chamber parliamentary elections.
He secured voter approval of a constitutional amendment providing for appointment, rather than election, of judges to the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, a change that was viewed as insulating the court from politics.
In that case, the court held that the second amendment provided for an individual right to bear arms and the late Justice Antonin Scalia proclaimed "handguns are the most popular weapon chosen by Americans for self-defense in the home, and a complete prohibition of their use is invalid".
In California, where the legislature had passed a constitutional amendment providing for universal health insurance, it was put on the ballot for ratification: a federation of insurance companies took out an ad in the San Francisco Chronicle warning that it "would spell social ruin to the United States".
Mr. Ashcroft's amendment provided for only one exception to the abortion ban -- "medical procedures required to prevent the death of either the pregnant woman or her unborn offspring," so long as "every reasonable effort" was made to save both their lives.
