Sentences with phrase «result of a constitutional amendment»

This page will offer results of constitutional amendments in New York state and races in Syracuse, Watertown, Oswego and Utica.

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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.

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.

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.

The last time the Constitutional Convention was called was in 1965, and the last time an amendment was passed as a result of the Constitutional Convention was in 1936.

As a result of the episode, lawmakers have called for reforms in how ballot language is written for constitutional amendments.

This means that partisan shifts in the Nevada Legislature often result in the failure of proposed constitutional amendments that are partisan in nature.

Former State Assembly Ways & Means Chair Arthur «Jerry» Kremer, in a new book analyzing the potential costs and benefits of a convention, writes that in 100 years, only six amendments have been made through the convention and 200 have resulted from individual constitutional amendments.

This «cascade» moved to the U.S. and ultimately resulted in a constitutional amendment (prohibition) to be followed by a reversal of same.