Sentence examples for amendment terms from inspiring English sources

So the government must still defend the law in basic First Amendment terms.

As Rory Little of the University of California's Hastings College of Law wrote on Scotusblog, this could be "the biggest Eighth Amendment term in forty years".

But Purdy does not offer an interpretation of the meaning of any of the Fifth Amendment's terms, nor does he address the wealth of evidence Somin provides concerning state courts' understandings of the term "public use" at the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment (which, among other things, expressly made the Bill of Rights' guarantees enforceable against the states).

"The case creates a temptation," he said, "for police to leave the occupant of a vehicle unsecured in the belief that they are now operating within the Fourth Amendment in terms of being able to search the vehicle".

The easiest method would be for Parliament to pass a constitutional amendment eliminating term limits.

With the exception of the constitutional amendment for term limits, all parts of the "Contract with America" were passed by the House, under the leadership of the speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.

In response to the squabbles, Alabama voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on Auburn trustees and taking the power to appoint them away from the governor.

Five years ago, shortly after Republicans won control of the House, Mr. Shaw voted in favor of a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on members of Congress -- a proposal that fell well short of the two-thirds majority needed for approval.

In response to growing unease, voters in 2000 passed by a two-to-one ratio a constitutional amendment setting term limits for Auburn trustees and giving alumni more say in selecting them.

But even while Mr. Chávez has been democratically confirmed time and again and even won a constitutional amendment abolishing term limits, his government has used various methods to weaken its opponents, including purging the Supreme Court of critical justices and stripping resources from elected opposition officials at the state and municipal level.

Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), who is expected to offer such an amendment, has termed this the "back door search" problem.