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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
- eighteenth amendment an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; repealed in 1932
- take the fifth refuse to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself
- freedom of the press a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution
- privilege against self incrimination the civil right (guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution) to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against yourself
- freedom from double jeopardy a civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution
- civil right right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality