Assertion: constitution's amendment | /r/HasProperty | defeated
Facets:
value: narrowly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The voters, in a special election held March 7, 1978, solely to ratify the amendments proposed by the convention, voted to remove the archaic provisions and the usury cap and to accept the changes regarding the governor's terms and metropolitan government, but they narrowly turned down the judicial amendment, marking the first time that an amendment put to the voters by a convention had been defeated.
text: A proposed amendment to extend to women the right to vote in 1874 was defeated, 136,000-40,000.
text: Observers believed the bipartisan commission had some chance of success because it was "specifically barred from changing the tax code", but Amendment 4 was narrowly defeated.