Sentence examples for amendment was drafted from inspiring English sources

Yet, at the time that the Second Amendment was drafted, militias, and not individuals, were the relevant entities.

Approval by both is expected since the amendment was drafted by a committee that included representatives from all parties in parliament.

Unfortunately the amendment was drafted and passed through parliament in rather a hurry, with very little time to correct problems that were raised during the consultation.

Second, the brief observes that the amendment was drafted as a limitation on the authority of the federal government, not of the states, and that even if the District of Columbia is considered the equivalent of a state, "legislation limited to the District can pose no threat to the interests the Second Amendment was enacted to protect".

The issue, moreover, was certainly on no one's radar screen in the 1860s, when the 14th Amendment was drafted and ratified.

A year or so ago a poorly-prepared article suggested that the second amendment was drafted to regulate slave militias in the states.

Over 70 proposals for an amendment were drafted.

What is absolutely necessary for the continuation of such blacklists as the No-Fly List and the Terrorist Watch List -- and for any expansion of them to ban gun sales -- is that a constitutional amendment be drafted to grant the government what would otherwise be an unconstitutional power.

The amendments were drafted by a panel appointed by the secretive ruling military council and rushed to a vote.

The Second Amendment to the Constitution was drafted and passed by Congress in 1791, during a time when one of the worries of the citizens of our new republic was that democracy could be crushed by a tyrannical government oppressing an unarmed citizenry.

The paper was drafted by DD, HB and JAH with comments and amendments by all other authors.