Word Finder - amendment

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An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

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In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.

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Correction of an error in a writ or process.

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An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.

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The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.

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That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.

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a soil amendment

The government were defeated on an amendment in committee, and thereupon resigned.

Under this provision an amendment cannot be adopted until nearly four years after it is first proposed.

The legislature meets biennially in odd-numbered years, the session being limited to ninety days by a constitutional amendment of 1888.

The constitution provides two methods for amendment.

A constitutional amendment of 1888 extended to them the right of suffrage in state and national elections, and an amendment of 1909 partially remedied the evils in the system of apportionment.

The act of 1887 remained in force without substantial amendment until 1906, although with constantly diminishing prestige, a result largely due to adverse decisions concerning the powers of the Commission.

In 1906 an amendment to art.

Amendment No. 18 deletes clause 13, which now becomes otiose.

He contended such a visit was in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.

The amendment was carried by 355 votes to 135.

A constitutional amendment of 1850 provided that all judges should be elected by the people.?

This decision led to the adoption of the eleventh amendment to the federal constitution, which provides that no suit may be brought in the federal courts against any state by a citizen of another state or by a citizen or subject of any foreign state.

Finding little amendment, however, in their course of living, he soon afterwards went again to Rome, and obtained permission from the pope to devote himself to missionary labours, which he carried on chiefly in North Germany' and Poland.

Side by side with the new processes introduced, the idea of the indeterminate sentence was started and put in practice, by which release was made to depend upon reasonable hope of amendment and sentences were prolonged until it was more or less certain that the treatment had resulted in cure.

An amendment may be proposed by either branch of the legislature.

There were consequently a few vestiges of the slavery system in New Jersey until the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution.

An amendment of 1908 provides for the taxation of mines and mining property.

An amendment to the constitution adopted in 1908 permitted counties to make an extra levy of 25 cents on each too dollars valuation for the construction and repair of roads and bridges.

Salaries have been too low to attract the ablest men; and as the constitution forbade the creation of new offices, and no amendment of this clause could be secured, resort was had to the creation of additional " secretaries " and of boards constituted of existing state officials or their secretaries.

In 1893 a maximum freight-rate Act was passed, but the rates thus fixed were declared by the United States Supreme Court to conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment, being " unreasonable."

In 1906 all political parties conducted campaigns on promises of radical legislation on railway rates, passenger and freight; and a constitutional amendment creating a railway commission was adopted in the manner above described.

This district may of itself constitute a poor law union; but in the great majority of cases the unions, or areas under the jurisdiction of boards of guardians according to the Poor-Law Amendment Act of 1834, are made up of aggregated poor-law parishes.

These provisions did not remedy the grosser defects, and as proposals for an amendment of the constitution could be submitted to the people only after receiving a majority vote of the lower house, all further attempts at effective reform seemed to be blocked, owing to the unwillingness of the representatives of the smaller townships to surrender their unusual degree of power.

A compromise amendment submitted by the convention, providing for two representatives for each township of 2000 inhabitants, and one more for each 5000 above 50,000, satisfied neither side, and when submitted to a popular vote, on the 16th of June 1902, was overwhelmingly defeated.

The Independent reports that Charles Clarke held a special meeting last night in order to persuade backbenchers not to back the rebel amendment.

Protocol amendment to the gene therapy trial in follicular lymphoma using a DNA vaccine.

Unfortunately, a very paltry amount of time was given to that amendment, as so often happens in another place.

By far the most important such amendment was the theory of socialism in one country, first promulgated by Stalin in autumn 1924.

I think that the language of the Amendment reflects the political sagacity of the Opposition.

His opponent, Sen. John Kerry, does not support same-sex marriage, but he opposes the constitutional amendment and supports same-sex civil unions.

This legislation is potentially a quite flagrant violation of the First Amendment.

He favoured the Prohibition Amendment, and voted for the Volstead Act, enforcing war-time prohibition, over the President's veto.

The constitution originally forbade the registration of voters, but an amendment of 1891 permits it in cities having a population of ten thousand or more, and the Australian ballot system was adopted in such cities by an act of the twenty-second legislature in 1892.

In April 1883 the Supreme Court pronounced this amendment invalid on the ground of irregularity in recording it, whereupon the legislature provided for a like prohibition in an ordinary statute.

To put the finality of emancipation beyond all question, Lincoln in the winter session of 1863-1864 strongly supported a movement in Congress to abolish slavery by constitutional amendment, but the necessary two-thirds vote of the House of Representatives could not then be obtained.

It was publicly agreed that England's difficulty in South Africa was Ireland's opportunity, and that all should abstain from supporting an amendment to the address which admitted that the war would have to be fought out.

This advice has been reviewed and reissued with an amendment to the Health section.

Pray that Baroness Young 's amendment to stop the repeal of section 28 is carried.

No amendment to or rescission of that constitution, in part or in whole, shall be valid unless approved by the Corporation.

Further amendment planned later in the year that will stipulate maximum periods for downloading data.

No motion or amendment shall be withdrawn without the unanimous consent of the meeting.

The 13th amendment is the part of the United States Consitution that formally abolishes slavery.

Backyard composting reduces the amount of waste you create in your yard and kitchen by converting it into a soil amendment that you can use to keep your lawn and garden healthy.

Another frightening sounding soil amendment is blood meal, which actually is dried, powdered blood.

Used with caution, manure remains a good option for an organic soil amendment.

The period began with soldiers coming home from overseas and was followed by the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, insuring women the right to vote.

New York and Oklahoma have also developed universal pre-K programs, and Florida voters have approved a constitutional amendment for a free pre-school program to be available for all four-year-olds by 2005.

Although bilingual education has been used in the United States for more than 200 years, the 1968 Title VII amendment to the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) instituted federal grants for bilingual education programs.

I. Hayakawa introduced a constitutional amendment to make English the country's official language.

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act is an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.