Sentences with phrase «constitutional convention since»

The event, co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute and the state Bar Association, looked to November 2017, when voters will be asked whether to hold what would be the state's 10th Constitutional Convention since 1777.

The panel included a history of New York's 11 state constitutional conventions since 1777 (by me) and an argument why New York's upcoming referendum was of national interest (by Sandy Levinson).

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Politico New York confirms that in the final stretch of the election none of New York's six statewide elected officials will speak out publicly in favor of a state constitutional convention and the only one who once did so, Governor Cuomo, has long since stopped doing so for compelling political reasons.

Voters will decide Nov. 7 whether to hold a constitutional convention, which voters have rejected twice since the last convention was held in 1967.

The last constitutional convention occurred in 1967, but the constitution hasn't been updated since 1938.

«It has been 50 years since we had a constitutional convention,» he said in his 2016 State of the State address.

Since the Constitution doesn't dictate neither when ratification of an amendment expires nor when application for a Constitutional Convention expires, it follows that unless Congress has established a deadline, an application for a Convention is pending indefinitely.

Politicians from across the political spectrum have come out in the days since Scotland's independence referendum in favour of a constitutional convention to determine the future shape of the UK.

If Labour wants our line on a constitutional convention to hold, we might want to stop talking about «two classes of MP», which we've had since 1999, and start talking in the terms of the problems Freeman describes.

Since only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debSince only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debsince Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debates.

No periodic state constitutional convention referendum has passed since 1984 — contributing to the longest drought in convening a state constitutional convention in U.S. history.

In the absence of a codified constitution, it is necessary for us to turn to constitutional convention or, as Dicey termed them, the «understandings, habits or practices which, though they may regulate the conduct of... officials, are not in reality laws at all since they are not enforced by the courts» (An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1959) 10th edn, Macmillan, p 24).

Cases that have been referred since the program commenced have included: cases arising under Section 1983, Title VII, Hague Convention and the Social Security Act as well as cases presenting constitutional issues.

2) apart from the fact that CJEU stated that even before EU exercising its power, the MS must still act - when they have the power to do so - in a matter which does not jeopardise or prejudice the EU, so that the mere «potential» competence does have an effect, limitating the MS action, the parallel is that a negative rule is still a rule, so that the existence of the rule makes the matter «regulated»: - as for the JHA, I must say that whilst I agree with you on the merits, I can see the issue raised by the CJEU, since it is quite the same raised by some national Constitutional Courts, i.e. that ECHR standards may be in conflict with national standards and formally speaking the ECHR is a treaty and therefore has a lower rank that national Constititions, and the decision of the ECHR on the interpretation of such standards within the context of the Convention does not bind the national Constitutional Court in interpreting the national Constitution standards: e.g..