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Example sentences for "constitutional amendment"

  • You may ask, why does the South want us to do it by Constitutional Amendment, when we have just done it voluntarily by Law?

  • Just do, by Constitutional Amendment, what you have voted in the Senate and House of Representatives, that is all.

  • Simply that a Constitutional Amendment shall be adopted, affirming--what?

  • Early in the session, Senator Campbell had introduced a constitutional amendment to that end.

  • Apparently only Indiana and Kansas now impose a double liability, the law in Ohio having been recently altered by constitutional amendment.

  • I hope that thereby the difficult process of constitutional amendment may be rendered unnecessary.

  • Two groups oppose my plan on the ground that they favor a constitutional amendment.

  • The first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress proposed, as their plan of Reconstruction, a Constitutional Amendment.

  • Mr. Cobden, writing from England, also associated this event with the Constitutional Amendment.

  • Concurrent Resolutions declaring the rule in ascertaining the three fourths of the several States required in the ratification of a Constitutional Amendment.

  • A constitutional amendment, to which a great majority of our people gave their sanction, has removed the impediments which stood in the way of progressive legislation in the protection of an honest ballot in Indiana.

  • A constitutional amendment adopted in Missouri in 1902 provides for the ratification of charters by majority vote.

  • Colorado, by a constitutional amendment adopted in 1902, permits the ratification and amendment of charters by a majority vote.

  • I am well aware of how difficult it is to pass a constitutional amendment.

  • If, however, the judgment of the Congress is that it lacks the constitutional power to pass such an act, then a constitutional amendment should be submitted to confer the power.

  • That was the pretended adoption of a constitutional amendment, prohibiting the existence of slavery in the United States.

  • We doubt whether a constitutional amendment securing "manhood suffrage" alone could be fairly passed in a single State in this Union.

  • When the conditions are not yet ripe for a constitutional amendment, there are many measures which are valuable in arousing public interest and preparing the way for final triumph, as well as important in ameliorating the condition of women.

  • Methods by which change has been put into effect (constitutional amendment, treaties, federal legislation under cover of power to regulate commerce and lay taxes).

  • The matter was taken up in Congress and resulted in the proposal, and subsequent ratification by the states, of a constitutional amendment designed to prevent such actions in future.

  • Calmer counsels prevailed, however, and plans were initiated to get over the difficulty by a constitutional amendment.

  • The decision aroused an indescribable state of popular fury, not only in Georgia but throughout the Union, and led to the adoption of a constitutional amendment[3] prohibiting such suits in future.

  • A constitutional amendment, authorizing a general income tax, was a part of the agreement.

  • In 1898 the first State, South Dakota, adopted the principle of initiative and referendum in a constitutional amendment.

  • It believed that constitutional power already existed for most of the needed functions of government, and demanded that where the power was lacking it should be obtained by constitutional amendment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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