"amendment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They wrote another constitution in 1875, and the legislature passed the Blaine Amendment, prohibiting public money from being used to finance religious affiliated schools.
- (Indeed, public schools continued to teach Bible studies and religious instruction for some years even in states which adopted Blaine Amendments.)
- In 2012, a measure repealing the Blaine Amendment failed to win a simple majority in Florida.
- In December 1875, he proposed a joint resolution that became known as the Blaine Amendment.
- After 1875 many states passed constitutional provisions, called "Blaine Amendments", forbidding tax money be used to fund parochial schools.
- If the Blaine Amendment prohibited vouchers, couldn't it also prohibit the state aid now going to hospitals, colleges and preschool programs run by religious institutions?
- The judges ducked these inconvenient questions by ignoring the Blaine Amendment and using another rationale.
- The Blaine Amendment bans state assistance to schools that have a religious affiliation.
- In 1875, Grant supported the Blaine Amendment, having stated the church and state should remain "forever separate."
- The proposed Blaine Amendment to the Constitution followed.
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