Sentence examples for the only amendment from inspiring English sources

The Eighteenth Amendment is the only amendment to have secured ratification and later been repealed.

The amendment is unique in two ways: (a) it is the only amendment that has specifically repealed another amendment; and (b) it is the only amendment that has used the auxiliary method of ratification via state conventions rather than the legislatures of the states.

The ban on the consumption of alcohol, which is perhaps the best-known case of constitutional failure and the only amendment of the US constitution that was ever repealed, arguably failed for the same reason.

On being told that the changes and who had made them were visible, he said: "The only amendment I thought they added was the [publication] date of the story".

In point of historical and constitutional fact, nothing could be further from the truth: the only amendment necessary for gun legislation, on the local or national level, is the Second Amendment itself, properly understood, as it was for two hundred years in its plain original sense.

That also appeared to be the approach of Governor Romney, whose aides spoke to Republican lawmakers during a late-afternoon caucus and, according to Mr. Fehrnstrom, told them that "it was the only amendment on the table and therefore should be supported".

But enough compromises have already been made, and the only amendments there ought to be room for are ones that McConnell wouldn't like.

According to Roll Call, Mr. Reid: moved to limit amendments on a House-passed JOBS Act and set up two procedural votes for Tuesday — the only amendments expected to be offered to the measure.

The speaker was Martin Amis and, yes, the quotations have been modified, with Asians, Blacks and Irish here substituted for Muslims, and Judaism for Islam - though, it should be stressed, these are the only amendments.

The Thirteenth Amendment is the only ratified amendment signed by a President, although James Buchanan had signed the Corwin Amendment that the 36th Congress had adopted and sent to the states in March 1861.

The Twenty-first Amendment was deemed so necessary (and the Eighteenth so ineffective), it is the only Constitutional amendment ever passed to overturn a previous amendment.