Eighth Amendment

Eighth Amendment may refer to:

  • Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the United States Bill of Rights
  • Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which bans termination of pregnancy in the Republic of Ireland
  • Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which changed Pakistan's government from a parliamentary system to a semi-presidential system
  • Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa, which allowed members of municipal councils to cross the floor from one political party to another without losing their seats

Famous quotes containing the words eighth and/or amendment:

    “The eighth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Eight maids a-milking,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 43–45)

    “During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I ... [urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enacting that all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner’s jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)