amendment
Formal document change
An amendment is a change or addition to a document, law, or agreement.
In the U.S., the word most often refers to changes to the Constitution: the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment.
To amend is to revise or improve: amend the contract, amend your ways.
A friendly amendment is a minor change proposed during deliberation that the original author accepts.
Act of altering something
- alterationAct of modifying
- revisionAltering to improve
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
- correctionFixing of mistakes
update · edit · tweak · refinement · rewrite · redraft · reworking · fix
Amount owed, written
- statuteEnacted written rule
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- provisionPreparatory supply or clause
- clauseProvision in agreement
section · motion · rider · markup · committee · sponsor · co-sponsor · filibuster
Enforceable written agreement
- addendumSupplementary text at end
- stipulationCondition in an agreement
- codicilWill modification document
- modificationAct of altering something
revision · supplement · attachment · exhibit · deed · filing · notarized · executed
Inherent physical or structural makeup
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
- three-fourthsSeventy-five percent portion
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
repeal · framers · preamble · article · supersede · enshrine · codify · civil-liberties
Absence of constraint
- speechOral communication ability
- pressApply force downward
- religionSystem of spiritual belief
- assemblyConstructing from components
petition · voting · civil-liberties · privacy · self-incrimination · citizenship · abolition · enfranchisement
modification
Act of altering something
- alterationAct of modifying
- revisionAltering to improve
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
correction · update · edit · tweak · refinement · rewrite · redraft · reworking · fix · patch
bill
Amount owed, written
- statuteEnacted written rule
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- provisionPreparatory supply or clause
clause · section · motion · rider · markup · committee · sponsor · co-sponsor · filibuster · cloture
contract
Enforceable written agreement
- addendumSupplementary text at end
- stipulationCondition in an agreement
- codicilWill modification document
modification · revision · supplement · attachment · exhibit · deed · filing · notarized · executed · severability
constitution
Inherent physical or structural makeup
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
- three-fourthsSeventy-five percent portion
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
prohibition · repeal · framers · preamble · article · supersede · enshrine · codify · civil-liberties · enumerated
freedom
Absence of constraint
assembly · petition · voting · civil-liberties · privacy · self-incrimination · citizenship · abolition · enfranchisement
- legal termstrial, legal, appeal, lawsuit, law
- City Charter Termsbylaws, ordinance, preamble, article, clause
- legislative procedurefilibuster, cloture, roll call vote, voice vote, floor vote
- Model UNdelegate, committee, resolution, caucus, bloc
- meeting termsmeeting, agenda, minutes, RSVP, attendee
- paperworkinvoice, permit, documents, license, filing
amendmentworsening
Becoming more severe
deterioration · degradation · damage · impairment · harm
amendmentrepeal
Annul a statute
deletion · removal · nullification · revocation · abrogation
- 15th amendmentBanned racial voting barriers
- constitutional amendmentsFormal changes to governing document
- Fifth AmendmentProtection against compelled testimony
- First AmendmentConstitutional free expression guarantee
- Second AmendmentConstitutional gun rights clause
- Sixth AmendmentConstitutional trial protections