Which preposition to use with amendments
He proposed an amendment to the Constitution, to provide that a dinner of at least three courses should be given to cows daily.
If the religious lady will not bestir herself, and make sacrifices to teach such people that that is not what God meant them to beto stir up in them a noble self-discontent, a noble self-abhorrence, which may be the beginning of repentance and amendment of lifeI know not of what her religion is made.
Indeed the Constitution was twice amended; for, having passed the sixteenth amendment in February, permitting an income tax, the States, just to show what they could do when aroused to it, passed the seventeenth amendment in May, authorizing the direct election of United States senators by the people.
Republicans love him, Independents worship him, while Democrats would endure even the Fifteenth Amendment for his sake.
As a result of this provision, if we count the first ten amendments as virtually part of the original document, only nine amendments have been adopted in 185 years, and of these, excepting the amendments which ended slavery as the result of the Civil War, only the last three, passed in recent years partly through the relaxing influence of the world war, mark a serious departure from the basic principles of the Constitution.
Upon enquiry, he found that many endeavours had been made to keep this turbulent offender in proper subjection without the severity of chains; but, after repeated promises of amendment on milder treatment, she had obliged the keeper to have recourse to this extreme by relapsing into the most flagrant and insufferable contempt of decency and order.
Health & safety code of the State of California with amendments up to & including those of the fourth extraordinary session of the 54th legislature of 1944.
"Clause 3 "The International Council shall prepare and submit with the notification and invitation above provided a preliminary programme of the International Conference, which shall be subject to modification or amendment by the Conference.
Then came another question-begging amendment from Mr. ADAMSON, suggesting that the Commission's inquiries into the possibilities of reorganising the mines should be limited to the single question of "nationalization"the "blessed word" of Labour just now.
[Footnote 23: H.V. Ames, Proposed Amendments to the Constitution, in the American Historical Association Report for 1896, pp.
It binds itself in view of the coming revision of the constitution to embody an amendment into Art.
And with the laudable intention of beginning amendment at once, Lady Bearwarden rang sharply to tell her servants she was "not at home to anybody till Lord Bearwarden came in, except"and here she turned away from her own footman, that he might not see the colour rising in her face"except a man should call with some silks and brocades, in which case he was to be shown up-stairs at once.
=59.= NECESSITY OF AMENDMENT BEFORE ADOPTION.
All Christ's reference to eternal punishment may be resolved into reference to the Valley of Hinnom, by way of imagery; with the exception of the Dives parable, where is distinctly inferred a moral amendment beyond the grave.
I exhort gentlemen to think seriously, before they ratify this constitution, and to indulge a salutary doubt of their being able to succeed in any effort they may make to get amendments after adoption.
He appealed to the chair to rule the amendment out of order.
Lord John Russell opposed the amendment with great vehemence, pronouncing the acceptance of it, if it should be accepted, and the House should thus consent "to retract its previous vote, a lamentable proof of subserviency, which would disgrace it with the country."
" Similar declarations are found in the Declaration of Independence the same year, and the Massachusetts Bill of Rights four years later; but the Virginia definition, being the work of Thomas Jefferson, is both the most compendious and the most concise, and is substantially copied in the Second and Third Amendments of the Federal Constitution.
The debates were continued for two months with much spirit and ability; again and again a majority of the Parliament voted amendments against which Bismarck had spoken.
On Constitutional Amendments, see Johnston's article on Amendments in Lalor's Encyclopaedia.