Sentence examples for amendment was framed from inspiring English sources

However, by the late 20th century the popular consensus had shifted, many believing that the Second Amendment was framed to protect armed self-defense in the home.

For legislation of this character, providing two sanctions for the same misconduct, enforceable in separate proceedings, one a conventional criminal prosecution, and the other a forfeiture proceeding or a civil action as upon a debt, was quite common when the Fifth Amendment was framed by Congress.

The Mississippi "personhood amendment" was framed as a battle over the rights of women to use birth control - not to make "miscarriage" a crime.

Even the religion clause of the First Amendment is framed dryly and without reference to any particular faith.

Another clue: Several of the amendments were framed as "sense of the Senate" or "sense of the Congress" resolutions, which pack no legal punch.

There is no reason to believe that this understanding was lost by the time the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process of Law Clause was framed.

But just as Mubarak did not explicitly bring up the issue of extending his presidential term in 2009, Sissi's proposed constitutional amendments will not receive sufficient attention at the White House — particularly because the amendments have been framed as a matter of sovereignty that is up to the Egyptian people.

This is not surprising as the debates themselves were framed specifically for this purpose: to review the legislation, three years on, to assess whether any amendments had to be made to the regime.

You are being framed.

SECRETARY GENERAL AMR MOUSSA: Well, it depends on the amendments to the constitution and how they are framing the new basis of the election of the president.

The amendment was defeated.