Sentences with phrase «amendments to the state constitution since»

That process has added over 200 amendments to the state constitution since 1894, which is the last time a convention produced a new constitution.

Not exact matches

December 5, 2017 marks 84 years since the United States ratified the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and paved the way for the modern three - tier beverage alcohol system.

Under Supreme Court constitutional interpretation, since individual states never had the original sovereign authority to unilaterally change the terms and conditions of service of federal officials agreed to and established in the Constitution, such a power could not be «reserved» under the Tenth Amendment.

Since the minimum time it takes to amend the state constitution through a legislatively referred constitutional amendment is four years, getting a partisan policy added to the constitution is a significant victory.

A lengthy discussion that follows of so - called Blaine amendments (the generic term for measures enacted in various state constitutions forbidding direct government aid to educational institutions with any religious affiliations) contends that since the ESA money goes to parents, state constitutional prohibitions against funding religious institutions are avoided.

There is not binding case law in all parts of the United States on the incorporation of the 3rd Amendment on quartering soldiers under the 3rd Amendment (but this is not a big deal since there are very few soldiers who don't count as federal who seek to be quartered in someone's house and there are other incorporated rights which overlap with this one like the 5th Amendment eminent domain rights that overlap with the protections of the 3rd Amendment, and because many state constitutions contains 3rd Amendment protections anyway).

Note also that these topics are important even if the Second Amendment isn't incorporated against the states, since they also arise under the at least 40 state constitutions that recognize an individual right to keep and bear arms.

The legal context was still, of course, that of the state constitutions, since the First Amendment had not yet been held applicable to state action.