Sentence examples for the amendment itself from inspiring English sources

The amendment itself got amended -- supporters are more likely to say gutted -- in 2000 and again in 2005 by voters who said its cap on state spending was strangling essential services.

The amendment itself would need 67 votes to pass.

The amendment itself permits seven years to elapse before it dies, if unratified".

For more than a hundred years, the answer was clear, even if the words of the amendment itself were not.

The amendment itself provides that no one "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself".

Representatives were voting on a measure to block the amendment -- not on the amendment itself, although it was effectively rejected.

"That result is hard to square with the text of the First Amendment itself, which gives special solicitude to the rights of religious organizations," Chief Justice Roberts wrote.

An Internet search shows that schools' programming includes everything from a public reading of the Constitution to a classroom debate over the constitutionality of the Byrd amendment itself.

Dead is dead -- in the case of al-Awlaki that applies to the drone's target, the balance test, and the Fifth Amendment itself.

In many ways, the government was asking the Court to reject or at least severely curtail the Fourth Amendment itself, with its promise of "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures".

Another means by which gun violence can be reduced and rogue gun owners controlled is by returning to the sorely neglected words of the Second Amendment itself: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".