Sentences with phrase «as a constitutional amendment»

When you're exercising power over others by enacting legislation, or ratifying treaties that have the same authority as Constitutional amendments, or the Justices who interpret the Constitution, we're not talking about your personal rights anymore.

Recent reports say the commission held back subpoenas at the administration's request, and Capital reported yesterday that commissioners are in discussions with the administration to propose a public campaign finance system as a constitutional amendment.

The mailer in the Nassau County Senate district touts Cronin's proposals, including term limits for state lawmakers, campaign finance reform measures such as closing the LLC loophole, boosting penalties for corruption and support for stripping public officials of their pensions if they are convicted of corruption — the latter of which is now up for second passage in the Legislature next year as a constitutional amendment.

The budget does not include ethics legislation such as a constitutional amendment for term limits or limiting legislative pay.

Issues like the DREAM Act, which provides tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants, and ethics reform such as the constitutional amendment the governor first proposed in December for term limits and limiting outside income for state officials, lack the «political will,» he said.

It is, however, probably the best the state is going to get at this point, as constitutional amendments, (which also require approval via a public referendum), are notoriously difficult to pass.

«The final report contains eight CRC revisions that will appear as constitutional amendments on the 2018 General Election ballot for voter consideration,» according to a news release.

Packaging public financing as a constitutional amendment could make those proposals more palatable to resistant legislators, in part because an amendement would face several additional hurdles to becoming law and could not take effect for at least five years.

Democrats in the remaining 26 - member conference grumble about the IDC's propensity to side with Republicans on contentious issues such as a constitutional amendment for independent redistricting and a vote that some saw as watering down the powers of the lieutenant governor in order to provide needed votes (it was even joked about at the LCA Show in May).

Since then, the IDC has given their four votes to Republicans on a variety of issues, such as a constitutional amendment for redistricting, a move seen as a GOP delay tactic.

Voters would have to approve that one as a constitutional amendment.

5 and 6 (Order in Council P.C. 2013 - 1105, October 22, 2013)(35586) Mar. 21, 2014 A lawyer with 10 years standing at the Barreau du Québec can not be appointed to the S.C.C. pursuant to sections 5 and 6 of the Supreme Court Act, and Parliament can not (except as a constitutional amendment) pass correcting legislation.

Not exact matches

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

The 13th constitutional amendment was ratified in 1865 and stated: «Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.»

The cofounders of the firm declined to testify, initially invoking their constitutional under the First Amendment and later under the Fifth as well.

Let's get the constitutional issues made more political, by getting them more often debated as amendments.

But, in the Senate, it was criticized as an «election dodge,» and it fell two votes short of the two - thirds required to propose a constitutional amendment.

(Compton explains that because slavery was abolished through formal amendments, abolitionism did not have the same impact on constitutional interpretation as did anti-lottery and anti-liquor campaigns.)

As long as we continue to club the other Presbyterians into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked in religioAs long as we continue to club the other Presbyterians into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked in religioas we continue to club the other Presbyterians into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked in religion.

As long as Presbyterians continue to club the other into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked in religioAs long as Presbyterians continue to club the other into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked in religioas Presbyterians continue to club the other into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked in religion.

As you probably know, Californians recently voted in support of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that overturns a state Supreme Court decision that legalized same - sex unions.

I think that during the pre-hostility's period the South's emphasis on the 9th and 10th Amendments (state's rights, etc) indicates their embrace, predicated on economic concerns, for the founding ideal of the sanctity of the «state» as the constitutional ground of the polis.

As it turns out, these poor fellows may not have been vagrants but merely exercising their constitutional rights: The Obama Administration recently filed a legal brief in a case out of Boise arguing that, in certain circumstances, outlawing sleeping in public violates the Eighth Amendment proscription against «cruel and unusual punishment.»

Worley's initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama's endorsement of same - sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions.

The conference finally adopted several arguably peripheral constitutional amendments such as forbidding acquisition of new U.S. territory without approval by a majority of both slave - state and free - state senators, guaranteeing federal compensation for fugitive slaves when failure to return them was due to anti-slavery violence or intimidation, and restoring and perpetuating the Missouri Compromise line that once satisfied both regions but had been struck down by the Dred Scott decision.

A constitutional amendment that would have defined a fertilized egg as a person failed on the ballot in Mississippi on Tuesday.

Reformers pursued these goals for the most part by means of legislation or constitutional amendment, not yet having enlisted the judiciary as an active agent of their cause.

Thomas Jefferson was of course in France at the time the constitutional amendments known as the Bill of Rights were passed by Congress and ratified by the States.

The Court moved a long way toward making homosexual conduct a constitutional right, adopted the radical feminist view that men and women are essentially identical, continued to view the First Amendment as a protection of self - gratification rather than of the free articulation of ideas, and overturned two hundred years of history to hold that political patronage is unconstitutional.

««Privacy,» «he said, «is a broad, abstract, and ambiguous concept which can easily be shrunken in meaning but which can also, on the other hand, be interpreted as a constitutional ban against many other searches and seizures [than those intended by the Fourth Amendment].»

As he raised concerns over the sweeping changes to state government through a pair of constitutional amendments proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a statement pointed to the relative short window of time debate would be held over term limits and creating a full - time Legislature that bans outside income.

«Where we are is if, if, if,» Cuomo said, reiterating that the political boundaries as proposed by Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats must be fairer and coupled with the reform of a constitutional amendment plus a law for this year.

The vote, which took place as the Commons debates Lords amendments to the electoral registration and administration bill, will deepen already intense bitterness on the government backbenches over the coalition's stalled constitutional reform agenda.

Cuomo has called for closing the LLC loophole in campaign finance law as well as an agreement on requiring officials convicted of corruption to surrender their pensions through a constitutional amendment.

agos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Friday called for the closure of the Federal Land Registry in Lagos, describing it as an aberration which the current ongoing Constitutional amendment process must address in line with the principle of fiscal federalism.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins did not praise the constitutional amendment that would codify the Roe v. Wade decision in state law as backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday, indicating more urgency was needed on the issue.

In theory, a constitutional amendment could pass with a small minority, if voter turnout and concern was very low, just as in theory, you could win 500 million dollars in the next lottery.

It is considered by some parties as illegitimate, posing a serious danger to Japan's democracy since the Prime Minister circumvented the constitutional amendment procedure, dictating a radical change to the meaning of fundamental principles in the Constitution by way of Cabinet fiat without Diet debate, vote, or public approval.

The constitutional amendments, as laid out by Cuomo's office in the evening statement, would create a four - year legislative term, essentially limit legislators to two terms.

Cuomo did include a package of ethics measures in the budget, reiterating proposals such as limits to outside income for lawmakers and term limits through constitutional amendments.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Wednesday night formally confirmed the push for a pair of constitutional amendments that would ban outside income and term limit the state Legislature as talk of a special session before the end of the year heats up.

«New York voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment to expand casino gambling, authorizing as many as seven full - scale casinos as part of a plan meant to bring jobs to economically distressed upstate regions.»

In addition to calling for an inclusion of marriage equality in the Democratic Party platform, the language also backs overturning the Defense of Marriage Act and passing DOMA repeal legislation known as the Respect for Marriage Act in addition to opposing state constitutional amendments aimed at blocking gay couples from marriage rights.

In 2004, 59 % of voters approved a state constitutional amendment that defined marriage as «the union of one man and one woman.»

They would be allowed to design the districts as they pleased to respond to the 2010 census, but would have to pass a constitutional amendment to reform the process for the next census in 2020.

Sen. Mike Gianaris decried the potential constitutional amendment that would overhaul the state's redistricting process as «an epic fail» that would have long - lasting impacts on fair elections in New York.

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An impasse over a constitutional amendment that would strip corrupt officials of their pensions could be nearing an end, as the Democratic - led Assembly is poised to consider a version previously approved by the Republican - controlled Senate.

Going through the more formal, restricted process of proposing a specific Amendment that must be introduced in Congress, be passed by 2/3 majorities in both houses, and then be ratified by the required number of states (3/4, which would still have to approve amendments from a convention, as well) seems doomed to fail in this current period of hyper - partisanship and gridlock, but the alternative of calling a Constitutional Convention is so broad that it can easily have unexpected results, in the opposite direction that those originally organizing had hoped for.

The proposal comes as lawmakers are drawing closer to an agreement on a constitutional amendment that would force public officials convicted of corruption to surrender their pension benefits.