Sentence examples for before the amendment from inspiring English sources
This must be taken as legislative recognition that there are suits authorized by § 1 of the Act of 1871 which could be brought under § 24(14) after, as well as before, the amendment of 1875 without compliance with any requirement of jurisdictional amount, and that these at least must be deemed to include suits in which the subject matter is one incapable of valuation.
Before the amendment, many states set the minimum voting age at 21.
(So eager was the Delaware state senate that it voted to ratify an hour and forty minutes before the amendment had technically been submitted).
The Sixteenth Amendment must be construed in connection with the taxing clauses of the original Constitution and the effect attributed to them before the amendment was adopted.
Before the amendment, tax credits were worth up to 50% of face value in large, high-yielding companies, but subsequently it is difficult to detect any value at all.
The amendment introduced Thursday does not indicate what would happen to those couples who marry in the years before the amendment could get final approval.
Shortly before the amendments were proposed the case of two Rwandans who were living in the UK demonstrated the need for the change.
Before the amendments the statute imposed a severe penalty on one who robbed mail matter from the Postal Office but imposed no penalty on one who robbed money or other valuable property from the Post Office...
Since Parden had been decided two years before the amendments were adopted, Congress understandably had no reason expressly to declare the disallowance since no immunity existed to be disallowed.
Some other environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Food and Water Watch, opposed the bill even before the amendments were made last week.
