Sentences with phrase «repeal of a constitutional amendment»
The final three remarked that such a repeal would never happen, and they're right — repeal of a constitutional amendment would require the approval of 38 state legislatures, a high bar that, realistically, can not be reached.
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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.
A repeal bill introduced in light of the advisory opinion failed to clear the legislature, as did a bill providing for partial implementation (for those offices not affected by the advisory opinion) and a bill providing for a constitutional amendment to allow for full implementation.
The other amendment would repeal a Florida state constitutional provision that prohibits public funding of religious organizations.
Section 13 of the Revised Statutes, providing that penalties and liabilities incurred under a statute are not to be extinguished by its repeal unless the repealing act shall so expressly provide, etc., is inapplicable where the statute imposing the penalties is rendered inoperative by the power of the people exercised through a constitutional amendment.
In essence, while the repeal of net neutrality will erode the constitutional right of free speech enshrined in the 1st Amendment, the proposal to privatize regulation, if implemented, would erode the constitutional right of equal protection of the law enshrined in the 14th Amendment.
Both constitutional amendments would have also repealed any judicial canons that prohibited a judge from speaking in their campaigns or making a donation of money, services, or property to a political party or a candidate for office, including a candidate for a judicial office.
However, the only way to make such a provision permanent is to make it be a Constitutional Amendment, since an act of Congress can be repealed or amended in such a way that it effectively doesn't exist.