amendment vs recall

amendment

noun
  • Correction of an error in a writ or process. 

  • That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something. 

  • In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits. 

  • An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution. 

  • An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. 

recall

noun
  • Request of the return of a faulty product. 

  • Memory; the ability to remember. 

  • The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search. 

  • The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state. 

  • The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. 

verb
  • To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. 

  • To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote. 

  • To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. 

  • To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. 

  • To call again, to call another time. 

  • To request or order the return of (a faulty product). 

  • To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). 

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