1.   During a recession, the amendment could prevent pump-priming expenditures and expanded benefits for the unemployed, unnecessarily exacerbating an economic downturn.

2.   I hereby propose a constitutional amendment to prevent Steve Young from playing any more professional football.

3.   Nursing homes and hospitals oppose repeal, saying it the amendment prevents states from arbitrarily cutting Medicaid reimbursements to them to solve their own budget problems.

4.   One amendment that survived prevents banks with poor Community Reinvestment Act ratings from acquiring a securities firm.

5.   The amendment would prevent not the United Nations, but the U.S. Agency for International Development from supporting abortion-related programs in other countries.

6.   The amendment would prevent the Justice Department from independently pursuing such cases.

7.   The amendment prevents Congress from passing immediate salary increases for itself.

8.   The Wellstone amendment would prevent teen-age parents from being counted in the educational cap.

9.   Critics say the amendment would prevent lawmakers from voting according to their conscience.

10.   That amendment prevented Kaunda, leader of the main opposition United National Independence Party, from running because his parents were immigrants from neighboring Malawi.