Sentences with phrase «consider changes to the constitution»

Stymied in their efforts to get the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to go along with their idea, these advocates see a convention of delegates brought together to consider changes to the constitution as a means to loosen marijuana laws.

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(CNN)- Pope Benedict XVI is considering changing the Vatican constitution to allow a vote for his successor to begin before March 15, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Wednesday.

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.

E.g. Yisrael Beiteinu (until October 2012 the third largest party in Knesset, and which has just merged with Likud into what is generally considered the strongest party in Israel, Likud Yisrael Beiteinu)- has had as its electoral planks, and introduced into 15th Knesset - the creation of Constitution (as well as a change to Presidential form of government).

The Charter Revision Commission, the panel appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to consider changes to the city constitution, plans to take a serious look at a proposal that would eliminate the need for voters to make a second trip to the polls for runoff elections.

That's why our constitution provides every generation of New Yorkers with the chance to either affirm that we are content with the system as it is, or say that we want to consider fundamental changes in how we are governing ourselves.

The union - backed opponents are crushing a hodge - podge of supporters of Proposal 1, which asks voters whether they want a convention in 2019 to consider changes to the state constitution.

The commission, a 37 - member group that meets every 20 years to consider changes to the state constitution, has been holding a series of public hearings on the school plan and other proposals, including one to provide constitutional protection for affirmative action programs.

A new study concludes that one of the biggest contributions of the most effective charter schools is the extra help many of them give students, important information in Georgia as voters consider whether to change their state constitution in a way that could create more charter schools.

But if the Senate were to magical change, the people could consider it wrong and could revoke such decision which could voting out such a Senate and altering any law or the constitution if they wished.

If you want to argue that «emend» means to improve by changing a text, then consider the 18th amendment to the US constitution that ushered in Prohibition, as opposed to the 21st amendment that abolished it.

What really grates is the eagerness of many of our parliamentarians to see section 44 of the constitution changed in light of the inept citizenship scandal, i.e. to save their own necks before even considering putting right an unjustified historical wrong.

This Constitution may be amended by two - thirds of the number of votes cast by the delegates at the National Convention, provided the proposed amendment shall first have been submitted in writing to and been reported upon by the Board of Directors, and provided further, that written notice of the substance of the proposed change has been sent to each Member Board who is qualified to vote individually at least 30 days prior to the meeting at which the amendment is to be considered.