Sentences with phrase «of a constitutional amendment for»

But he also acknowledged more could have and should have been done amid criticism the final weeks of the session that produced limits to super PAC coordination, first passage of a constitutional amendment for stripping corrupt officials of their pensions and new disclosure requirements for political consultants was not enough.

That appraisal resonates in Georgia, where black voters turned out in large numbers several years ago to help pass a constitutional amendment confirming state authority to grant charters, but played a crucial role in the November defeat of the constitutional amendment for an Opportunity School District.

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Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

Finally, Rodriguez calls for a grand fiscal compact in 2013 after the election, and failing that the arduous task of effecting these structural changes through Constitutional amendment.

In 1990, 84 percent of the voters approved a constitutional amendment providing for a three - day waiting period and background check on the retail sale of handguns.

Constitutional Amendment 1: «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances»

He therefore proposed a constitutional amendment in late 1875 that would have rewritten the First Amendment — applying it to the states, and adding that «no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools... shall ever be under the control of any religious secamendment in late 1875 that would have rewritten the First Amendment — applying it to the states, and adding that «no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools... shall ever be under the control of any religious secAmendment — applying it to the states, and adding that «no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools... shall ever be under the control of any religious sect.»

Our most recent Constitutional Amendment, number 27, adopted in 1992, which prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives, was first introduced by James Madison in 1789.

While I don't object to a constitutional amendment that would extend special protection to unborn persons - especially since such an amendment would presumably lodge protection for the unborn beyond the discretion of partisan courts, and also dispose of any potential problems with respect to state action - such an amendment is constitutionally superfluous.

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.

As long as Presbyterians continue to club the other 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.

I think that during the pre-hostility's period the South's emphasis on the 9th and 10th Amendments (state's rights, etc) indicates their embrace, predicated on economic concerns, for the founding ideal of the sanctity of the «state» as the constitutional ground of the polis.

The conference finally adopted several arguably peripheral constitutional amendments such as forbidding acquisition of new U.S. territory without approval by a majority of both slave - state and free - state senators, guaranteeing federal compensation for fugitive slaves when failure to return them was due to anti-slavery violence or intimidation, and restoring and perpetuating the Missouri Compromise line that once satisfied both regions but had been struck down by the Dred Scott decision.

The adoption of such a constitutional amendment would be an act of repression for a large part of the community, and would actually go against the moral and religious convictions of most Protestants and Jews and many Catholics.

Here, too, questions could be raised, but the fact is that on immigration the U.S. bishops take pretty much the position of the Wall Street Journal, which, only half tongue in cheek, calls for a constitutional amendment abolishing national borders.

Reformers pursued these goals for the most part by means of legislation or constitutional amendment, not yet having enlisted the judiciary as an active agent of their cause.

The evangelical - moralist sector has gained access to the White House, the Supreme Court, the Congress; it has a near - monopoly on mass media religion news, popular religion, the production of religious celebrities; it makes clear its positions on what it calls social issues, and is engaged in calling for constitutional amendments and new laws and in protests in the public squares.

The 19th century also witnessed the growth of the Liberal movement, which campaigned for a separationist constitutional amendment but was undone in part by the unpopularity of it's equivocal position on obscenity.

Last week, whilst teaching a course at Colorado College, I wrote a piece for The Economist about a bill to allow civil unions in the state, which was combined with reporting on Obama's announcement in support of gay marriage and that passage of North Carolina's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

By yet again pulling consideration of this bill because of the amendment being proposed to it by distinguished members from all sides of your Lordships» House, the Conservative party, for party political reasons, is seeking to subvert the role and practice — the constitutional role and practice — of this House.»

The people under the most pressure are the Senate Republicans, all of whom signed Koch's three - pronged pledge (it also included budget and ethics reform), only to turn around and pass a constitutional amendment that would overhaul the process in time for the 2022 elections but leave it in all it's partisan and un-independent glory this year.

The age cap amendment for judges is one of six constitutional changes voters will consider in November.

The mechanism for that could be amendment or Constitutional Convention or revolution, and is expressly mentioned in 39 of the states» constitutions.

«Where we are is if, if, if,» Cuomo said, reiterating that the political boundaries as proposed by Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats must be fairer and coupled with the reform of a constitutional amendment plus a law for this year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is prodding lawmakers to back first passage of a pair of constitutional amendments that would set term limits for state elected officials and create a full - time Legislature that bans outside income.

Senate Republicans are not rushing back to the bargaining table when it comes to a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture by officials convicted of corruption.

But, neither age has constitutional stature for purposes other than voting and prior to 1971, in the midst of the Vietnam War, when the 26th Amendment was adopted, the age 18 had no formal significance in the constitution.

Cuomo has called for closing the LLC loophole in campaign finance law as well as an agreement on requiring officials convicted of corruption to surrender their pensions through a constitutional amendment.

agos 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.

Cuomo did include a package of ethics measures in the budget, reiterating proposals such as limits to outside income for lawmakers and term limits through constitutional amendments.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Wednesday night formally confirmed the push for a pair of constitutional amendments that would ban outside income and term limit the state Legislature as talk of a special session before the end of the year heats up.

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 linkFor 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 linkfor elected officials and a reconstituted pay commission for lawmakers, who insist none of these items should be linkfor lawmakers, who insist none of these items should be linked.

Now, I don't want to be too cynical - if you wanted people to support a constitutional amendment which relinquishes sovereignty to Canada, you'd need a huge amount of social influence over a prolonged period of time; but some of the existing initiatives for constitutional amendments are challenging mostly because of active minority groups applying pressure in both directions rather than staunch popular opinion.

So far, he has succeeded in pushing through an ethics overhaul (although the resulting watchdog, JCOPE, has come under fire) and gotten the Legislature to do first passage of a constitutional amendment that would change the redistricting process for the next round of line drawing after the 2020 Census.

Asked if constitutional amendments that would ban private - sector pay for lawmakers and create term limits were still part of the talks, Flanagan said they were not.

In addition to calling for an inclusion of marriage equality in the Democratic Party platform, the language also backs overturning the Defense of Marriage Act and passing DOMA repeal legislation known as the Respect for Marriage Act in addition to opposing state constitutional amendments aimed at blocking gay couples from marriage rights.

During remarks delivered at a forum hosted by the nonpartisan good government group Citizens Union, the Attorney General outlined what he believes is required to help «cure the disease» of public corruption, including a total ban on outside employment income for legislators, an end to per diems, rules reform to empower individual legislators, and a constitutional amendment to extend legislators» terms from two to four years.

· A Four - Year Term For The Legislature: Calling it a «a game changer,» Attorney General Schneiderman proposed a constitutional amendment to change the length of legislators» terms to four years, in order to end the two - year cycle of non-stop re-election fundraising and campaigning.

Going through the more formal, restricted process of proposing a specific Amendment that must be introduced in Congress, be passed by 2/3 majorities in both houses, and then be ratified by the required number of states (3/4, which would still have to approve amendments from a convention, as well) seems doomed to fail in this current period of hyper - partisanship and gridlock, but the alternative of calling a Constitutional Convention is so broad that it can easily have unexpected results, in the opposite direction that those originally organizing had hoped for.

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

They could amend the constitution, which requires the president, congress, and the majority of states to agree on, and also requires a lot of time - constitutional amendments can drag on for decades, as each state sets its own timetable on ratification.

It would appear that the government will be announcing support for a whole host of amendments to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill today, including ones regarding Lords reform and excluding non-doms from Parliament.

In his State of the State speech in January, Mr. Cuomo raised the stakes further, calling for the constitutional amendment to legalize casino gambling and proposing to transform Genting's planned resort near Aqueduct into a destination casino resort that would include the nation's largest convention center.

Senate Republicans, who are currently holding on to a thin majority despite a massive disadvantage in voter registration, have dangled the possibility of a constitutional amendment as a possible compromise, in exchange for a degree of latitude in this year's process.

The major constitutional clause is the «due process» clause of the fifth amendment that requires due process of law for limiting certain rights:

While a number of state legislatures have called on Congress to propose a constitutional amendment to undo Citizens United or address the related issue of corporate «personhood,» few have taken the route of asking Congress to call for a constitutional convention.

The committee's mandate, as noted earlier, is to streamline all the proposals for constitutional amendments and by that, determine the «substance and workability» of each proposal and present their report, which shall be in the form of a draft constitution to national conference, through national council for consideration and adoption.

Amendments to the present Charter shall come into force for all Members of the United Nations when they have been adopted by a vote of two thirds of the members of the General Assembly and ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations, including all the permanent members of the Security Council.

The conference, among other things, considered the various proposals for constitutional amendments which were received from party members and made available to all stakeholders, at least one month to the national delegates» conference in fulfillment of Article 18 of the NPP constitution.