Sentence examples for the amendment grants from inspiring English sources

First, it says, the Second Amendment's text and history, properly understood, show that the amendment grants a right that "may be exercised only in connection with service in a state-regulated militia".

The amendment grants more powers to the parents of girls under 18.

Courts have ruled that the amendment, granting persons the right not to be forced to incriminate themselves, has an important exception for "required records" that must be kept for activities that are regulated and of a "public" nature.

The Amendment granted the rights of citizenship to all individuals born in the U.S., including freed slaves.

For well over two centuries the Supreme Court never decided that the Amendment granted a constitutional right to individuals to bear arms.

Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the N.R.A., said the San Francisco case was likely to be "a slam dunk" in light of the landmark ruling on Thursday that said the Second Amendment grants individuals the right to own weapons for self-defense and hunting.

Even if you believe, as most Americans do, that the Second Amendment grants Americans the right to bear arms, one must also acknowledge the right of other Americans to not bear arms and be safe.

The case, a dispute over the effect of a 10-year-old Congressional ban on the restoration of felons' gun privileges by the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobaccoand Firearms, did not directly raise the question of whether the Second Amendment grants an individual right to bear arms.

The Sixth Amendment grants a criminal defendant the right "to have the assistance of counsel for his defense," and the Fourth Amendment gives citizens a right to be free of "unreasonable searches and seizures".

The Fifth Amendment grants a criminal defendant the right to an indictment by a grand jury.

The Supreme Court has consistently held that the Fourteenth Amendment grants automatic citizenship to those born on U.S. soil, but Vitter and Paul said Thursday that right should not extend to the children of undocumented parents.