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Real0ne -> RE: Legal scholars to Trump: Abide by Constitution (12/16/2016 4:51:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
Articles ... amendments ... not really inter-changeable, in this case.
Just thought I'd help as someone that loves his first AMENDMENT rights.
Michael
you would properly say US Consitution 'article of amendment #1', we just got lazy thats all.
Articles
Series or subdivisions of individual and distinct sections of a document, statute, or other writing, such as the Articles of Confederation. Codes or systems of rules created by written agreements of parties or by statute that establish standards of legally acceptable behavior in a business relationship, such as articles of incorporation or articles of partnership. Writings that embody contractual terms of agreements between parties.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
ARTICLES. A division in some books. In agreements and other writings, for the sake of perspicuity, the subjects are divided into parts, paragraphs, or articles.
ARTICLES, chan. practice. An instrument in writing, filed by a party to a proceeding in chancery, containing reasons why a witness in the cause should be discredited.
ARTICLES, eccl. law. A complaint in the form of a libel, exhibited to an ecclesiastical court.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
article
n. a paragraph or section of any writing such as each portion of a will, corporate charter (articles of incorporation), or different sections of a statute.
article
a clause or section in a written document such as a treaty, contract or statute.
Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006
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