Sentences with phrase «convention referendum question»

I was research director for the Constitution Revision Commission created by Gov. Mario Cuomo in anticipation of the vote in 1997 on the mandatory convention referendum question.

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White highlighted four crucial questions for any constitutional convention in the UK: 1) Its membership (politicians, the public or both); 2) Its agenda and whether or not it has agenda - setting powers; 3) What happens to its output (whether it goes to parliament or straight to a referendum); 4) How co-ordinated it is across the territories of the UK.

(The question of how you would entrench a written constitution in the UK has some similar features: the practical political point must be that you legislate to create institutions with a referendum; we have a new convention that it would take a referendum to abolish (eg the Scottish Parliament).

In an ideal world we'd like a referendum question (or the options to be voted on) to be based on / influenced by recommendations from a citizens convention type process, even a truncated one.

The convention question, which appears on ballots every 20 years, will be put toward voters this November in a referendum.

Errol Louis: «I plan to vote yes on this fall's referendum question about whether New York should hold an official constitutional convention to amend some badly outdated parts of the state Constitution.

The symposium provides a summary of notable presentations at a short course, A Political Primer on the Periodic State Constitutional Convention Referendum, presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, whose theme for 2016 was «Great Transformations: Political Science and the Big Questions of our Time.»