Word: amended
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...desirable to amend the Federal Constitution? Is it desirable even to consider the subject of amending the Constitution...
...prerequisite to any amendment must be the opportunity to amend. There are two methods and only two for amending; the one through the initiative of the Congress; which may from time to time, with the concurrence of two-thirds of each House, propose amendments; the other, through the initiative of two-thirds of the States, upon the call of whose legislatures the Congress shall provide for a Convention to propose amendments. However proposed, no amendment can become a part of the Constitution unless ratified by three-fourths of the States, by action of Legislature or Convention in each, respectively...
There is but one way to amend the Constitution, or even to real, sooer consideration of the subject of amendment, and that is through the action of State Legislatures, moving upon the Congress for a Constitutional Convention...
...duty of this board will be to supervise, control, and amend, subject to the authority of the President and Fellows, the business administration of the University touching the maintenance and improvement of grounds, buildings and equipment, the methods of accounting employed in the management of the several departments, and in the control of appropriations and laboratory fees at their disposal, the adjustment of dormitory rents, the method of assigning rooms to tenants, and such other matters as the President and Fellows may from time to time commit to them...
...meeting last night of the Phillips Brooks House Association, it was voted to amend article 4 of the constitution in order to provide for the admission of newly formed societies to the cabinet of the Association...