amendment

[A*mend·ment]

An amendment is a change made to an original (usually a document or statement). It's meant to improve the original, but one could say the 21st Amendment (prohibition) did more to make Al Capone rich than to make Americans teetotalers.

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An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

Noun
the act of amending or correcting

Noun
a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)


n.
An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

n.
In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

n.
Correction of an error in a writ or process.


Amendment

A*mend"ment , n. [F. amendement, LL. amendamentum.] 1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. 2. In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting. 3. (Law) Correction of an error in a writ or process. Syn. -- Improvement; reformation; emendation.

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

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Usage Examples

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

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Other Usage Examples

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

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