Sentence examples for scope of the amendment from inspiring English sources

Thus, he concluded that telephone conversations were not within the scope of the amendment, and that warrantless wiretapping was consequently permissible.

When South Carolina provisional governor Benjamin Franklin Perry objected to the scope of the amendment's enforcement clause, Secretary of State Seward responded by telegraph that in fact the second clause "is really restraining in its effect, instead of enlarging the powers of Congress".

Hunting opponents accused the Conservatives of deliberately seeking to mislead the public about the scope of the amendments it plans to make to the 10-year-old ban, which MPs are due to vote on on 15 July.

After the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, the Supreme Court dealt with a series of cases regarding the scope of that amendment's Due Process Clause.

Some were shocked by the sound defeat of the so-called personhood amendment last year, which would have defined a fertilized human egg as a legal person, but here that defeat is generally attributed to concerns about the scope of that amendment, not some deep support for abortion rights that had gone undetected.

"This constitutional amendment would change the scope of the First Amendment," said Cruz, pointing to past opposition to similar measures by liberal stalwarts like the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass).

"Whether the Second Amendment blossoms into something with the force and the scope of the First Amendment -- or becomes a very narrow civil right without much practical significance -- that entirely remains to be seen," he said.

In his book Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture, Robert L. Tsai recommended Curtis' book, "for an account of antebellum debates over the scope of the First Amendment".

The case raises fundamental questions about the scope of the First Amendment.

But he said the Supreme Court had no "freewheeling authority to declare new categories of speech outside the scope of the First Amendment".

Deputy attorney general James Cole defended the bulk collection of Americans' phone records as outside the scope of the fourth amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.