On constitutional amendments in favor of universal suffrage, the report was favorable for extending suffrage to colored men, but doubtful as to the wisdom of extending it to women.
Again, in February, 1881, Mrs. Minor made an able argument before the legislative committee on constitutional amendments in support of the petition for the enfranchisement of the women of the State.
Steele and others, with a resolution asking that the committee on constitutional amendments be instructed to provide for the submission of an amendment conferring the franchise upon woman.
In its application to laws and resolutions the referendum is optional; in application to constitutional amendments it is obligatory.
The resolution was referred in both Houses to the Committees on Constitutional Amendments and a joint hearing was set for an early date.
This year the suffragists had a most successful hearing before the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments.
This year for the first time a hearing was granted before the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments.
It began in 1877 with voting on constitutional amendments.
Condensed, this writer's statement is as follows: Constitutional amendments now go to the people for a vote in every state except Delaware.
The cantonal Initiative exists in fourteen of the twenty-two cantons--in some of them, however, only in reference to constitutional amendments.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constitutional amendments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
