Sentence examples for amendment the first from inspiring English sources

And he observed that the same was true of life, liberty, and property, the rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment: "The first is life".

While all of these laws are subject to the limitations of the First Amendment, the First Amendment generally doesn't protect threats and harassment.

In the revised amendment, the first sentence remains intact: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman".

The so-called Hyde Amendment, the first major win for the pro-life movement in the aftermath of Roe v Wade, did exactly what Mr Cantor advocates back in 1976.

In 1848, Senator Davis proposed and introduced an amendment (the first of several) to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that would have annexed most of northeastern Mexico, but it failed on a vote of 11 to 44.

While Trump contends, as he did today, that Democrat Hillary Clinton is intent on abolishing the Second Amendment, his own statements about loosening libel laws and suing publications that cross him suggest that he's the one intent on abolishing a constitutional amendment, the first one.

Similar to the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment is divided into five clauses, representing five distinct, yet related, rights.

Hence, the majority of provisions from the Bill of Rights have been extended to the states; the exceptions are the Third Amendment, the grand jury clause of the Fifth Amendment, the Seventh Amendment, the excessive bail provision of the Eighth Amendment, the Ninth Amendment, and the Tenth Amendment.

They are the Fifth Amendment, the Eighth Amendment, and the very rarely heard of "Corruption of Blood" clause.

The fourth amendment and the first amendment – and the fourth amendment language is crystal clear," he said.

Mr. LaPierre, before the Second Amendment was the First Amendment.