The phrase "amendment that is the" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific amendment in a legal or formal context, often to clarify or specify which amendment is being discussed.
Example: "The amendment that is the cornerstone of our rights is the First Amendment."
Alternatives: "the amendment which is the" or "the amendment identified as the".
There is a stream of phrases indicating things people want — "full employment," "energy independence," "more prosperity" — punctuated by "Ronald Reagan" and "Tenth Amendment" (that's the one about states' rights).
Last week, a group of senior Republican senators called for hearings on repealing the 14th Amendment; that's the one that affords children born on American soil automatic citizenship.
While it was not a violation of the First Amendment, that is not the same thing as saying that the decision has nothing to do with "free speech".
I am constrained to believe that today's decision flows from a view of the Fourth Amendment that is unmindful of the history that begot it and of the purpose for which it was included in the Bill of Rights.
"The amendment that is being referenced by the congressman would not do any of the things that you stated it would do," Ernst said.
But it is the Fourteenth Amendment rather than the First Amendment that is most squarely implicated by the government's actions.
"The amendment is a technical amendment that is completely consistent with the original agreement," he said.
The Fourth Amendment that is used to protect us from those illegal cell phone searches?
"What scares me about what is happening in the mid-terms in Tennessee is that the amendment that's on the ballot would actually not provide for abortion in the case of rape or the potential death of the mother.
The 1935 amendment that was referred to the House Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads was a noncontroversial measure that Congressman Dobbins, a Member of that Committee, managed on the floor of the House.
