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Example sentences for "propose amendments"

  • They have proposed a meeting in Philadelphia in May, and that it may be authorized to propose amendments of whatever is defective in the federal constitution.

  • You have doubtless heard that North Carolina has thought it best to propose amendments to the new Constitution before acceding to it.

  • A participation in legislation; probably at first, it will only be a transfer to them of the portion of it now exercised by parliament, that is to say, a right to propose amendments and a negative.

  • He says this is the wrong way to propose amendments to the Constitution--that our action is inconsistent with that instrument.

  • Suppose one-half the States should request Congress to propose amendments, will Congress agree to it?

  • The State conventions would obviously be at liberty to propose amendments, but not to make them a condition of their acceptance of the government as proposed.

  • They desired that the State conventions should be at liberty to propose amendments, and that those amendments should be finally acted upon by another general convention.

  • Why, then, are we called upon to propose amendments subversive of the principles of the constitution, which were never desired?

  • He did not see how it was practicable to propose amendments, without making out a new constitution, in the manner brought forward by the committee.

  • Besides this, sir, it is questionable whether we have the right to propose amendments in this way.


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