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In 1972, an amendment to the U.S Constitution banning discrimination against women because of their sex was defeated for lack of sufficient ratification among the states.
Seneca wrote that the first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Colton once observed that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produces amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it does not.
In the case of 1841 Lord Melbourne dissolved Parliament, and, on the meeting of the new Parliament, an amendment to the address was carried by a majority of ninety-one, August 28, 1841.
I have not, however, ventured to do so here, but if such an amendment should prove generally acceptable, it would only be necessary to add the required figure to all my dates, other than Mesopotamian, prior to 1580 B.
To a boisterous youth who, just setting out for a choral festival in a country church, said that he always thought a musical service very jolly, an old Whig lady said in a tone of dignified amendment, "I trust, dear Mr.
[218] Foremost amongst the many objects for which Bentham worked were the amendment of the criminal code, the improvement of the Poor Laws, the abolition of transportation, sanitary and prison reform, systematic registration, and the instituting of public prosecutors, in short better police all round and in the widest sense of the term.
And then the usual denouement after the fun had gone on fast and furious he got 1190 landed into hot water and had to be spirited away by a few friends, after a strong hint to a blind horse from John Mallon of Lower Castle Yard, so as not to be made amenable under section two of the criminal law amendment act, certain names of those subpoenaed being handed in but not divulged for reasons which will occur to anyone with a pick of brains.
“One great excellency in this tribe, is their skill at prognostics, wherein they seldom fail; their predictions in real diseases, when they rise to any degree of malignity, generally portending death, which is always in their power, when recovery is not: and therefore, upon any unexpected signs of amendment, after they have pronounced their sentence, rather than be accused as false prophets, they know how to approve their sagacity to the world, by a seasonable dose.
Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment.
"In adopting this course, I am not casting off a guilty wife, but giving her a chance of amendment; and, indeed, difficult as the task will be to me, I shall devote part of my energies to her reformation and salvation.
GW Bush realizes that calling for a Constitutional amendment is only a dumbshow: it won't be passed by 37 1/2 states.
If Chatterbox reads the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution correctly, that means Gore can only run for the presidency once, in 2000.
(The 22nd Amendment says you can only be elected president twice, and if you serve more than two years of a term "to which some other person was elected" you can only be elected once.
If you've been reading the 22nd Amendment too, it must now be tempting to use your magazine to at least help prop Clinton up until the two-year deadline is past, so Gore can run twice.
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