Sentence examples for method of amendment from inspiring English sources

This first method of amendment is the only one that has ever been used.

Article V allows an alternative method of proposing constitutional amendments, which cuts Congress out entirely: two-thirds of the state legislatures can call for a constitutional convention.

Gerry also convinced the Convention to include a second method for ratification of amendments.

Administrative subpoenas or NSLs--convenient substitutes for court-sanctioned warrants that require only a government official's signature in order to force virtually all businesses to hand over sensitive customer information--have become a popular method of bypassing the Fourth Amendment and a vital tool for the DOJ's various agencies.

There was Justice Clarence Thomas, joining the majority judgment while expressing the view that "this is an easy case" because "a method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment only if it is deliberately designed to inflict pain," which Kentucky's protocol obviously was not.

As Justice Clarence Thomas observed in the Kentucky case of Baze vs. Rees, the "method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment [ban on cruel and unusual punishment] only if it is deliberately designed to inflict pain" and that is not the purpose of the three drug concoction.

"This has been probably the most damaging to the Senate institutionally that I can recall," Mr. Daschle said today, referring to Mr. Lott's method of limiting debate and refusing amendments.

But the court needs to look beyond that and rule that Kentucky's method of lethal injection violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

In her ruling siding with the inmates, Judge Kristine G. Baker wrote, "The Court finds that plaintiffs are entitled to a preliminary injunction based on their method of execution claim under the Eighth Amendment".

The amendment to the method of consent from active to passive was granted by Newcastle University Ethics Committee (reference 00011/2009).

The amendment is unique in two ways: (a) it is the only amendment that has specifically repealed another amendment; and (b) it is the only amendment that has used the auxiliary method of ratification via state conventions rather than the legislatures of the states.