Sentence examples similar to basis for amendment from inspiring English sources

The convention's proposed amendments included a requirement for grand jury indictment in capital cases, which would form part of the Fifth Amendment, and an amendment reserving powers to the states not expressly given to the federal government, which would later form the basis for the Tenth Amendment.

"The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in a 1919 dissent that eventually became the basis for modern First Amendment jurisprudence.

"To the extent that it would influence individuals not to participate and get individuals to censor what they say because of a fear of undercovers – that's a basis for a first amendment violation".

"But it's also not easy to stand up for the liberty rights of people that really are the basis for the Second Amendment to begin with".

The conclusions of the OJAC would create the basis for the new amendment to Article 2(a)(10) that granted court-martial jurisdiction over civilians accompanying an armed force in a contingency operation.

Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, said that the concept of colorblindness holds great rhetorical appeal but that "there is no basis for concluding that the 14th Amendment equal protection clause requires colorblindness".

Though using Henderson's proposed amendment as the basis for its new draft, the Judiciary Committee removed language that would have allowed a constitutional amendment to be adopted with only a majority vote in each House of Congress and ratification by two-thirds of the states (instead of two-thirds and three-fourths, respectively).

During an often electric oral argument, the justices left two impressions: California did not provide a convincing basis for a major change in First Amendment law; and the video game industry was haughtily dismissive about the scale of the problem.

The basis for the movement was the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law.

The amendment is the basis for the exclusionary rule, which mandates that evidence obtained illegally cannot be introduced into a criminal trial.

This was certainly the tension created when those advocating for marriage equality cited the 14th Amendment as the basis for the LGBT community to legally wed.