amendments

Formal document changes

Amendments are formal changes or additions made to a document, law, or agreement.

In everyday use, an amendment corrects or improves something already established: The contract required several amendments before both parties would sign.

In American political discourse, amendments most often refers to the first ten additions to the U.S.

Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, though twenty-seven total amendments exist.

People invoke their amendments when asserting constitutional protections: I'm pleading the Fifth Amendment.

legal

legislation

Official enactment of statutes

statutesFormally enacted laws
provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
clausesGrammatical or legal units

bills · acts · regulations · enactments · codification · ordinances · parliament · senate · legislature · judiciary

revision

modification

Act of altering something

correctionFixing of mistakes
updateNew version or information
revisionAltering to improve

alteration · change · adjustment · refinement · improvement · reworking · redrafting · rewording · rephrasing · clarification

constitutional

ratification

Formal approval by authority

FederalismPro-central-government political theory
repealAnnul a statute
ProhibitionConstitutional alcohol ban era

suffrage · incorporation

rights

freedom

Absence of constraint

libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
speechOral communication ability
religionSystem of spiritual belief

assembly · petition · privacy · voting · suffrage · bail · discrimination · protection · expression · self-incrimination

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