Sentence examples similar to expedient amendments from inspiring English sources

And that overruling is accomplished by the simple expedient of substituting for the Amendment's words, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" the words "The right of the people to be secure in their privacy," words the Court believes the Framers should have used, but did not.

Historians continue to debate the degree to which Madison considered the amendments of the Bill of Rights necessary, and to what degree he considered them politically expedient; in the outline of his address, he wrote, "Bill of Rights—useful not essential—".

It is expedient.

Impatience is expedient.

His going became expedient.

This expedient is hardly unprecedented.

Bill Clinton did what was expedient.

"It seemed expedient," says Thompson.

There's only expedient exaggeration".

It is both expedient and genuine.

The embargo may be legally expedient too.