The vote on the Wallon amendment dealt with only one article of a project not yet voted as a whole, but it was the crossing of the Rubicon.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
The Fourteenth amendment had not then been made, nor those celebrated discussions which fixed its interpretation and application; but the reconstruction of the Southern States still left plenty of ground for bitter speech and feeling.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
We had accepted, without yet realizing at all what it meant, one amendment to our original plan.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford