Sentences with phrase «constitutional amendment»

As a result of the episode, lawmakers have called for reforms in how ballot language is written for constitutional amendments.

The proposed constitutional amendment allows for certifications up to the end of the year in which the judges turn 80.

The only mechanism that exists for calling early elections is the mechanism of constitutional amendment as specified in Article Five.

To place an initiated constitutional amendment on the ballot, proponents must collect valid signatures signatures equal to 10 percent of votes cast for governor in the last gubernatorial general election.

She has also worked on two state constitutional amendments in 2014 and 2016, both of which would have guaranteed the right to local self - government.

Seven new states passed constitutional amendments supporting real marriage.

The commission was established by constitutional amendment in 1983.

That year the system was changed, by constitutional amendment, to allow four year terms.

He broke with other religious leaders in opposing a state constitutional amendment banning same - sex marriage.

Laws related to Constitutional amendment which are submitted to referendum, shall require the approval of more than half of the valid votes cast.

The pledge didn't specify whether it would be fulfilled via constitutional amendment or via standard legislation.

Many prior «cascade» events involved busy - work with international treaties, not to mention constitutional amendments.

And it did not allow voters to propose or vote on initiated constitutional amendments.

Constitutional amendments prevented this, so they sought ways to escape the requirements of law.

In addition to the convention question, voters will consider several constitutional amendments.

Solution - each house passes a slightly different constitutional amendment, thus it goes nowhere.

Successful single constitutional amendments include expanding casino gambling and changing the redistricting process to draw legislative districts.

But the statewide constitutional amendment that voters passed in 2013 included language allowing sports books at the casinos.

He did not suggest constitutional amendments banning slavery throughout the country.

A big war and constitutional amendments settled the issue of whether the American union was merely a voluntary or federal union of independent states.

Note: There were the usual array of bills requesting constitutional amendments to change the public referendum process that were defeated.

Is there such a thing as an unconstitutional constitutional amendment?

It will also review proposed constitutional amendments and replace all national executives who have been appointed to serve in government.

In the case of constitutional amendments, almost every legislature must place them before voters.

Whether by law or by constitutional amendment, all elections should allow for «None of the above» to be a choice.

A preliminary count of last week's balloting showed about 56 percent of voters approving Constitutional Amendment 1, which establishes real estate and personal property as separate tax categories under the constitution.

However, the governor did propose several reforms, including the codification of Roe v. Wade, same - day voter registration, and limitations on legislators» outside income, which he says could be done through constitutional amendment.

«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.

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 religion.

And the proposed constitutional amendment doesn't mention recent legislation that requires prisoners to be counted as voters at their (mostly downstate) home addresses rather than at the (mostly upstate) addresses of the buildings in which they're incarcerated.

In Hawaii, voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment allowing the state to spend public money on private pre-schools.

The candidates all said they support constitutional amendments to overturn Citizens United and to establish free or low - cost health care as a right provided by the government.

Lagos 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.

The Citizens Union and League of Women Voters have offered up a FAQ detailing what the proposed redistricting constitutional amendment would achieve, how the new commission would work, and who would be eligible to serve on it.

Supporters of a convention have billed it as a way to bring systemic change to state government that wouldn't otherwise be approved by state lawmakers, who have their own process of putting constitutional amendments before the voters.

Recommendation 3.5: If constitutional amendments proposed are different to those recommended in the Expert Report, the Australian Government consults with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples prior to going to Referendum.

State lawmakers have the power to put constitutional amendments before the people on the November ballot.

Pension forfeiture has stalled in the Legislature after lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly approved competing constitutional amendments last year.

The IDC — Sens. David Valesky, Jef Klein, Diane Savino and David Carlucci — did vote in favor of the Republican - backed constitutional amendment for independent redistricting, which would not practically take effect until 2022.

The decisions thus chart a particular approach to education that can not be changed without constitutional amendment or reversal by a later court.

This falls under Constitutional Amendments 5 and 14, which guarantee «Due Process of Law.»

For Cuomo, the push and pull in the Senate is a sideshow compared to his efforts to engineer a special session that could result in the passage of constitutional amendments creating a full - time Legislature, term limits for elected officials and a reconstituted pay commission for lawmakers, who insist none of these items should be linked.

And in January, following Trump's inauguration, he proposed a state constitutional amendment protecting a woman's right to choose, recognizing the threat to women posed by the Trump administration.