Amendment vs Treaty - What's the difference?
amendment | treaty |
An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
In public bodies; Any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
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(legal) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
(international law) A binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely states and international organizations.
A formal agreement between two or more states.
As nouns the difference between amendment and treaty
is that amendment is an alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices while treaty is (international law) a binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely states and international organizations.amendment
English
(wikipedia amendment)Noun
(en noun)Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
- The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
- The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.
- a soil amendment
