The government puts it slightly differently, stating that the purpose of the amendment is to "restrict predatory behaviour".
One purpose of the amendment, part of a bill that would require French tests for potential immigrants, is to fight immigration fraud.
He said his research showed that the sole purpose of the amendment was to prevent freed slaves from being shackled again after the Civil War.
The ostensible purpose of the amendment, previously approved by the House, was to strip federal financing from school districts that deny meeting space to Boy Scout troops because of the national organization's discriminatory policy banning gay Scout members.
The purpose of the amendment was to forbid granting Most Favored Nation Trade Status to any country that had a non-market economy and also prevented free emigration.
While the literal purpose of the amendment is to protect our property and our bodies from unwarranted government intrusion, the moral intention behind it is to protect our human dignity.
The U.S. Supreme Court responded to these questions by outlining the fundamental purpose of the amendment as guaranteeing "the privacy, dignity and security of persons against certain arbitrary and invasive acts by officers of the Government, without regard to whether the government actor is investigating crime or performing another function".
This is not the place for subsidiarity, therefore, and this is the purpose of our Amendment No 7.
Correction: July 11 , 2000 Tuesday An article in some copies on July 2 about a vote by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A). in favor of an amendment to the church constitution to bar ministers from officiating at same-sex unions misstated the purpose of an amendment ratified by the church in 1997.
And Christie has said that the government should be allowed to listen in on Americans' conversations, reading their emails and text messages, to more easily find a probable cause to procure a search warrant — defeating the whole purpose of Fourth Amendment protections.
