Sentence examples for third amendment from inspiring English sources

"Nobody ever talks about the Third Amendment people".

A third amendment was also blocked from the ballot.

A third amendment, by Senator Maria Cantwell, a Washington Democrat, also was defeated.

"The fourth referendum of the third amendment of the 14th manifesto," she laughs.

Resentment over this practice is reflected in the Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which forbids it in peacetime.

On a third amendment, requiring the director of legal aid casework to be independent, the government lost by 17 votes.

(The Twenty-Third Amendment, adopted in 1961, provided electoral college representation for Washington, D.C).

Twenty-third Amendment, amendment (1961) to the Constitution of the United States that permitted citizens of Washington, D.C., the right to choose electors in presidential elections.

Prior to 1961, when the Twenty-third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allowed the District to choose electors for president and vice president, residents of the District of Columbia had been denied the right to vote in presidential elections.

The Twenty-third Amendment established a vote for District residents in presidential elections, allocating to Washington electoral votes equal to the number of the least-populated state (in effect, three).

The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.