Sentences with phrase «effort of a constitutional amendment»

If you were going to the effort of a Constitutional amendment (a / k / a super-majority); adding a simple set of dissolution triggers to the Constitution would be more cost effective than recall referenda (elections to have elections).

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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.

Barbara Bartoletti with the League of Women Voters, who attended the speech, agreed that Cuomo will have to make an extra effort to get the proposals through the Senate and Assembly, but she said the constitutional amendments are likely «dead on arrival in the Legislature.»

«One of the most important things the legislature can do in an effort to restore some faith in the system is to pass the proposed constitutional amendment that would ensure elected officials like Sheldon Silver, who abused their office for their own personal benefit, would not receive a public pension,» said Little in a statement.

To restore the public trust in public service, he's leading the effort to bring ethics reform to Albany by helping to pass a constitutional amendment stripping officials convicted of a felony of their taxpayer - funded retirement and instituting term limits on legislative leadership position, ensuring no one can accumulate entrenched power and use it to his or her advantage.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, who attended the speech, agrees that Cuomo will have to make an extra effort to get the proposals through the Senate and Assembly, but she says the constitutional amendments are likely «dead on arrival in the legislature.»

Lawmakers also turned aside an effort to pass a constitutional amendment that would have stripped the court of its authority over school finance and left all school funding decisions to the Legislature and governor.

K12 was a major supporter of the effort, donating at least $ 300,000 in 2012 to «Families for Better Public Schools,» a Georgia political action committee behind a constitutional amendment that would further the charter school industry by bypassing the legislature and state board of education to create a new, politically appointed commission that would have the authority to independently override state and local control and approve new charter schools and online virtual schools.

Though Blaine's effort was unsuccessful at the federal level, most states adopted some version of his proposed amendment, often in addition to an earlier constitutional provision prohibiting the «compelled support» of religion.

MICHAL OVÁDEK reports on the efforts of Slovakia to get rid of a blatantly unjust amnesty law from the era of authoritarian president Vladimir Meciar in the 1990s, including a constitutional amendment and a recent judgment of the Constitconstitutional amendment and a recent judgment of the ConstitutionalConstitutional Court.

Gov» t efforts to control encryption thus may well implicate not only the First Amendment rights... but also the constitutional rights of each of us as potential recipients of encryption's bounty.