Sentences with phrase «first constitutional convention»

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- It's Election Day and New York voters will decide whether to hold the state's first constitutional convention in 50 years.

The battle lines are drawn over whether New York should hold its first constitutional convention in 50 years.

In about a year and half, in November of 2017, a vote will be held on whether New York should hold what could be the first constitutional convention in over half a century.

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Constitutional historians Alfred H. Kelly and Winifred A. Harbison (writing nearly twenty years before Roe v. Wade) pointed out that the first Republican national convention in 1856 had appealed to the Fifth Amendment's due process clause, and so did Southern spokesmen:

Scotland's Future proposes that a Constitutional Convention be held sometime after the first elections in 2016, following independence.

This convention represented the first attempt by any Irish government to provide for a citizen - led programme of constitutional reform.

On January 26th we'll be launching the first «Crowd Sourced» Constitutional Convention on the future of Wales, and the UK.

The first step however is for Labour to adopt these principles in their manifesto — and commit to a citizens - led constitutional convention on how to implement them.

The establishment of an Irish Constitutional Convention was first proposed in April 2010 at the Labour Party conference in Galway, when then Labour leader Eamon Gilmore called for the establishment of a convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 Convention was first proposed in April 2010 at the Labour Party conference in Galway, when then Labour leader Eamon Gilmore called for the establishment of a convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 convention to revise the text of Bunreacht na hEireann, the 1937 Irish Constitution, in advance of the 1916 centenary.

Political analysts said Curran may also have been helped by Democratic voters coming out in larger numbers to send a message to President Donald Trump; union turnout against the state constitutional convention ballot question; or by the surprising underperformance of Republican Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino, who lost to underdog Laura Gillen to give town control to Democrats for the first time in 100 years.

Note: This website was the first to use this image in relation to New York's upcoming constitutional convention referendum.

The lesson plan is likely to be the first time New York students will have heard that they have a state constitution and a constitutional convention process to change it.

On the first of the November 7 ballot endorsements asking for a majority vote for a Constitutional Convention, VID unanimously rejected the proposal and thus agreed with the opinion of the New York Civil Liberties Union at the September meeting.

When the former Labour first minister Donald Dewar signed up for a Scottish constitutional convention in 1989, he said it had become necessary for Scots to live a little dangerously.

On Election Day, New York's voters will have their first opportunity in 20 years to call for a state constitutional convention via ballot proposition.

DiFiore first convened the panel last year leading up to this November's constitutional convention vote that failed.

The first step of the New York Constitutional Convention timeline begins this November on Election Day, November 7th.

New Yorkers will soon get a chance to decide whether to hold a constitutional convention in New York — but some government reform groups say some major changes need to be made first — including banning double dipping by state lawmakers who might become delegates.

Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Angela Eagle MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra MP Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham MP Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP Opposition Chief Whip Rosie Winterton MP Shadow Secretary of State for Health Heidi Alexander MP Shadow Secretary of State for Education Lucy Powell MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Owen Smith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle MP Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Lord Falconer of Thoroton Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention Jon Trickett MP Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Lisa Nandy MP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Chris Bryant MP Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Lilian Greenwood MP Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Vernon Coaker MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Diane Abbott MP Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray MP Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Nia Griffith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Kerry McCarthy MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Kate Green MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Michael Dugher MP Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Mental Health Luciana Berger MP Shadow Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon Lords Chief Whip Lord Bassam of Brighton Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell MP Shadow Minister without Portfolio Jonathan Ashworth MP Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning John Healey MP

«The Conservative Party has been quite vocal regarding its opposition to the first statewide proposal that asks if a Constitutional Convention should be held,» the party stated.

The Conservative Party is opposed the first proposal appearing on the ballot — whether to hold a constitutional convention.

March 1989 The Scottish Constitutional Convention (SCC) meets for the first time and sets out the key demand for a Scottish assembly or parliament with law - making powers.

Also at 6 p.m., Columbia Law School and the Rockefeller Institute of Government hold forum on «Constitutional Convention Referendum 2017 and Home Rule within the Empire State,» Jerome Greene Hall, first floor, Columbia Law School, 435 W. 116th St., Manhattan.

For the first time in 20 years, real solutions to end government corruption begin by voting «yes» on Election Day to hold a constitutional convention.

In doing so he will challenge the constitutional convention that says if Britain votes for a hung parliament, the existing prime minister gets the first chance to form a government.

New Yorkers Against Corruption, the group that opposes a constitutional convention, launched its first ad opposing next month's referendum.

New Yorkers will soon get a chance to decide whether to hold a constitutional convention in New York - but some government reform groups say there needs to be some major changes made first - including banning double dipping by state lawmakers who might become delegates.

In The Return of George Washington: 1783 - 1789, Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important — yet almost always overlooked — chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.

New Yorkers will soon get a chance to decide whether to hold a constitutional convention in New York, but some government reform groups say there needs to be some major changes made first - including banning double dipping by state lawmakers who might become delegates.

Whatever the constitutional convention about the party with the largest number of seats getting first shot at forming a government, the pressure on Clegg to back a Cameron - led administration if the Tories won the largest share of the vote — rather than support a party that had lost its majority — would be intense.

Empey first stood for election in the 1975 elections to the Constitutional Convention, standing as a candidate in Belfast East for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party he received 4657 first preference votes he was elected.

The first panel focused on New York, which on November 7, 2017 has the next referendum on whether to call a state constitutional convention.

While we all know George Washington as our first president and leader of American forces in the Revolutionary War, in The Return of George Washington: 1783 - 1789, Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Edward J. Larson illuminates another key role he played: leading the Constitutional Convention.

The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia Convention as the delegates hammered out the charter for the world's first constitutional democracy.

The nation's first and only Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia in 1787 with George Washington presiding.

They could pass a Constitutional amendment banning the death penalty, and specify that it should be ratified by state ratifying conventions, as was done for the Twenty - first Amendment, thus bypassing the state legislatures.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.