Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not capable of being amended or corrected.
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- adjective Not possible to
amend .
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Examples
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The State budget was in an "unamendable" status and passed in finality by the State Assembly early Friday evening, the 26 th.
Lakeshore Laments 2009
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Prager kept pointing out the constitution has several unamendable articles and one of them deals with presidential terms.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Obama Administration — Still Wrong on Honduras 2009
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Do taxpayers in Texas have a "right" -- unassailable and unamendable -- not to pay state income tax?
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In other words, the commission could transmogrify the entire body of U.S. law, and then -- reporting back to Congress after the election -- each house of Congress would have one unamendable up-or-down vote.
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It was an unamendable amendment guaranteeing slavery in the states forever.
John Stauffer: What Obama Can Learn from Lincoln's Inaugural 2009
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Everyone seems to acknowledge that the logic of an unamendable by-law would allow it but it is not the case and would itself take a by-law amendment.
Archive 2009-01-01 Steve Caldwell 2009
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According to Miguel Estrada — yes, THAT Miguel Estrada, born in Honduras, educated at Columbia and Harvard Law school, apprenticed under Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, and argued cases in front of the Supreme Court as Assistant Solicitor General; the one the Democrats filibustered to keep from becoming an appellate judge purely because he was Hispanic; THAT Miguel Estrada — there are only three unamendable provisions in the Honduran Constitution:
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Everyone seems to acknowledge that the logic of an unamendable by-law would allow it but it is not the case and would itself take a by-law amendment.
Latest Revision to UUA "Principles and Purposes" Document Now Available Steve Caldwell 2009
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On the other hand, if they contravene the unamendable Article 2, as the Court's 1989 logic says they must, then maybe they can be struck down.
Fighting the Veil 2008
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What renders the problem potentially insoluble — unless an overwhelming majority will tolerate the frustration of its clearly expressed will — is the unamendable clauses in the constitution (there are two others), plus the court's breathtakingly broad interpretation of them.
Fighting the Veil 2008
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