Sentence examples for modern amendment from inspiring English sources

They have portrayed unfettered access to public tax-supported roads as something like a modern amendment to the rights of man.

Many modern amendment proposals are unwise: amendments that would allow prosecution of flag burners or enshrine public school prayer would introduce contestable and evanescent policy considerations into a document whose very generality has ensured its successful endurance over time.

Nonetheless, modern amendments have made Doppler's theory useful to astronomers [ 11, 52].

"Reasonable expectation of privacy" is a phrase at the heart of the modern Fourth Amendment.

Modern first amendment doctrine was forged in dissents written by Brandeis and Holmes.

"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.

The decision aligns North Carolina's voting law symbolically and constitutionally with the Jim Crow era of segregation, which modern Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence worked to dismantle in iconic cases like_ _Brown v. Board of Education.

The last successful amendment initiated in modern times by Congress was in 1971, when the voting age was lowered.

When the case reached the Supreme Court in 1945, the modern understanding of the First Amendment, with its insistence on an independent news media, had yet to take shape.

In the UK the nearest to government action we are likely to get is an amendment to the modern slavery bill.

UK human rights groups, investors, parliamentarians from all parties and business leaders back the proposed amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill.