Sentence examples for amendment wording from inspiring English sources

The only pollster, Public Policy Polling, to consistently survey with the correct amendment wording has the ban passing with 56%, to 34% against.

Deal and his supporters say the 14th Amendment wording was never meant to automatically give citizenship to babies born to illegal immigrants.

She worked toward female suffrage in Wyoming, Utah, and California, and in 1878, she convinced California Senator Aaron A. Sargent to introduce a female suffrage amendment using wording similar to that of the Fifteenth Amendment passed some eight years previously.

Trial by Jury underwent relatively minor textual changes after its first run, mainly consisting of insignificant amendments to wording.

The discussion guide, scenario sheet and questionnaire were piloted at the first focus group which resulted in some minor amendments to wording.

Governor Barbour is a strong opponent of abortion rights but expressed skepticism about the amendment's wording "It's unnecessarily ambiguous," he told MSNBC on Tuesday.

But by wording his amendment that way, the staffer says Smith got an opportunity to air his concerns about NSF spending on the House floor.

Catholics, Protestants and some Orthodox Jews found a joint mission, and ever since the GOP -- especially in recent years -- has made abolishing abortion by constitutional amendment a vaguely worded but real commitment.

The Fourth Amendment's words do indeed prohibit general warrants — warrants lacking "probable cause" — but this language regulating warrants simply does not apply where no warrants are involved.

The Supreme Court has never explained where this ban on other evidence is to be found in the Fifth Amendment's words.

Some minor amendments to wording were made in light of the responses.