Sentence examples for even though the amendment from inspiring English sources

In a radical break from 70 years of Supreme Court precedent, Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, declared that the Second Amendment guarantees individuals the right to bear arms for nonmilitary uses, even though the amendment clearly links the right to service in a "militia".

The vote on a major medical marijuana amendment on the floor of the U.S. House on Wednesday night was an exciting development, even though the amendment was rejected by a vote of 163 to 262 (with three current vacancies and seven not voting).

Smith, a climate-change denier and water-carrier for Big Energy, has painted those investigations as political attacks on Exxon's First Amendment rights (even though the First Amendment does not protect knowingly false statements).

Tauro's ruling in Massachusetts persuasively makes the case for striking down DOMA on Tenth Amendment grounds alone, even though the Fifth Amendment equal protection arguments of Gill are perhaps more traditional in cases like these.

They assuredly do not belong to the people, even though the First Amendment explicitly forbids "abridging ... the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances".

Even though the 13th Amendment abolished human trafficking and slavery, it is still very much an issue all over the world.

And even though the 13th amendment was enacted, the oppression of immigrants and people of color continue.

This is true even though the 13th Amendment does not permit slavery for people being held for immigration violations, which are considered civil not criminal offenses.

Even though the 14th Amendment blatantly states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens," Trump told NBC's Meet the Press last summer that he would deny citizenship to the babies of undocumented individuals.

Even though the Blaine Amendment failed on the federal level in 1875, beginning in 1876, Congress required some Blaine-styled language in the state constitutions as a condition of statehood.

The Court also explicitly upheld the "discriminatory effect" prong of Section 5, stating that even though the Fifteenth Amendment directly prohibited only intentional discrimination, Congress could constitutionally prohibit unintentional discrimination to mitigate the risk that jurisdictions may engage in intentional discrimination.