A fork of Rural Dictionary
A change that is made to a law or legal document.
The bill of rights are examples of amendments.
The process of changing all the hard work someone else has done and turning it into something that doesn't resemble the original document at all.
At the Mid-American Model United Nations, delegates submitted twenty-six amendments to the resolution proposed by Burkina Faso to the point that the delegate disavowed any ownership of the original proposal.
A kiddie friendly alternate version of the lyrics of a song originally filled with filthy words.
Yo! I'm tired of Spotify exchanging the explicit version with the amended one in my playlists! Yeah! MAFIAA fucking around again with their license deals!
when the male dominated Congress proposes or passes legislation that will negatively impact Women
Congress pushed through the Health Care initiative after passing the Stupak aMENdment.
The refusal to testify on the grounds that a person's lungs (or other organs) will be viciously chopped up into that of a hamburger.
"I um...can't testify. I fear that my organs will be chopped up into a patty." "Ah, the 67th amendment."