The second amendment merely gives state governments the right to set up militias.
The amendment merely allows sanctioned states to buy food and medicine on a commercial basis, nothing more.
(Many other states kept established churches well into the independence period. The first amendment merely prohibited Congress from establishing a religion).
His decision, with its emotional resonance for gun supporters, was in conflict with the vast weight of modern rulings, which have held that the amendment merely gave the states a right to keep armed militia units.
German and E.U. officials say the constitutional amendment merely enshrines existing European budget rules and note that a get-out clause allows Parliament, by a simple majority, to set aside the target.
The First Amendment merely guards against government censorship, and the government here — a public university and city police department — were more than cooperative with Trump's alleged plans to speak.
Some people, above all Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman, have urged that the American constitutional tradition includes not merely formal amendments but also "constitutional moments," in which We the People make large-scale changes in our understandings.
Mr. Suarez, who is an assistant state attorney general, said that the amendments would merely bring state law in line with the Supreme Court's ruling, and that he expected them to be approved and signed by Gov. Christine Todd Whitman.
It rejected several amendments that merely required Congress to admit that mercury and other cement-kiln emissions cause premature deaths, heart attacks, asthma, and brain damage.
Finally, both Mr. Navracsics and Mr. Kumin claim that the Fourth Amendment is merely "technical" because many parts of the Fourth Amendment were previously included in prior constitutional amendments that were nullified for procedural reasons by the Constitutional Court.
