We believe it is actually a revision of the Constitution rather than an amendment.

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He is also pushing for a revision of Japan's pacifist constitution to ease tight restrictions on the armed forces.

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" When Gouverneur Morris was asked to draft the preamble to our new Constitution, he offered an important revision and opened with words that changed the course of our Nation and the history of the world: "We the people.

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