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nouna statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)type of:
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nounthe act of amending or correctingtype of:
Definition that contains amendment
- vote a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment
- prohibition the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
- amend make amendments to
- suffrage a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment
- equal protection of the laws a right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and by the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment
- fourteenth amendment an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government
- nineteenth amendment an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex
- right to an attorney a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution
- freedom from search and seizure a right guaranteed by the 4th amendment to the US Constitution
- double jeopardy the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried; prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution