amendment

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• The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

Culture In the US the first ten amendments to the Constitution are called the bill of rights . Each amendment to the US Constitution needs a two-thirds majority in each House and must be approved by 75% of the states.

• He is simply exercising his First-Amendment rights.
• a call to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution
• They have proposed an amendment to the federal constitution.
• a constitutional amendment allowing same-sex marriage

• important
• major
• significant
• …

• introduce
• make
• draft
• …

• pass (something)
• ban something
• outlaw something
• …

• without amendment
• amendment to

Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘improvement, correction’): from Old French amendement , from amender , based on Latin emendare , from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out of’ + menda ‘a fault’.