Definition of Amendments

1. Noun. (plural of amendment) ¹

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Definition of Amendments

1. amendment [n] - See also: amendment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amendments

amend
amendable
amendableness
amendation
amendations
amendatory
amende
amended
amended return
amender
amenders
amendes
amendful
amending
amendment
amendments (current term)
amends
amene
amened
amenia
amening
amenities
amenity
amenorrheal
amenorrheas
amenorrheic
amenorrheics
amenorrhoea-galactorrhoea syndrome

Literary usage of Amendments

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1900)
"The text of the following twelve amendments to the Constitution, ... These amendments, recommended to the States by Congress, September 25, 1789, ..."

2. The American Political Science Review (1922)
"LEGISLATIVE NOTES AND REVIEWS EDITED BY WALTER F. DODO amendments To State Constitutions 1919-21. The following tables set forth the various amendments to ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"[35] The limitation, therefore, of articles V. and VI. and VIII. of those amendments being intended exclusively to apply to the powers exercised by the ..."

4. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Benjamin Perley Poore, United States, United States Congress. Senate (1877)
"OF amendments TO THE CONSTITUTION. Whenever a majority of the house of representatives shall deem it necessary to alter or amend this constitution, ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"the need of a provision for amendments. The present plan would doubtless be found defective ; amendments would be needed ; and it would be wise to provide ..."

6. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives by Clarence A. Cannon, United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson (1919)
"This rule was adopted in 1880 to prevent a practice by which Senate amendments of the class described had escaped consideration in Committee of the Whole ..."

7. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, United States Congress. Senate (1837)
"amendments to the said bill; two-thirds of all the members elected to the Senate voting in favor thereof, as follows, to wit: FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE. ..."

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