Assertion: amendment | /r/HasProperty | superfluous
Facets:
value: "purely superfluous"
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Introducing the Tenth Amendment in Congress, James Madison said that although many felt that the amendment was superfluous, many of the states were keen to include it because they were “anxious” that the powers not delegated to the constitution “should be reserved to the States”.
text: Ambedkar's second objection was that the amendment was "purely superfluous" and "unnecessary", as "socialist principles are already embodied in our Constitution" through Fundamental Rights and the Directive Principles of State Policy.