Even without amendments, the Senate bill is well worth passing.
Its first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights, are almost entirely about limiting government's power.
And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the debates — the course of events — over more than two centuries.
At Princeton, he wrote his thesis on the Ninth and 10th Amendments, the core of the states' rights argument.
By 2014, prior to Mr Osborne's child-friendly amendments, the charge had skyrocketed as high as £388.
Even if the amendments the Democrats would like to see were miraculously passed, its timing is hopeless.
In a series of amendments, the House floor was often divided less by party than by regional interests.
In issuing final regulations in 1975 to flesh out the amendments, the Labor Department adopted two seemingly contradictory regulations.
The protest is about proposed constitutional amendments the demonstrators say retain too much power in the presidency.
After several more amendments, the final bill banned reproductive and research cloning and remained silent on embryonic stem cell research.
Whatever further climbdowns, tweaks or amendments the government is considering, a tougher stand on admissions should be a priority.
