Sentences with phrase «text of the constitutional amendment»

Not exact matches

It's probably worth making explicit that constitutional amendments aren't amendments in the Robert's Rules of order «motion to amend» sense of changing the text of other potential legislation under consideration, but new legislation which might have to pass special procedures in order to be enacted.

Orin, I read the text and some Eighth Amendment precedents to place substantive constitutional limit on certain types of extreme criminal punishments, and I am eager for the Justices to develop those limits more robustly in the context on very long terms of imprisonment.

The Law Library of Congress» Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) not only indexes Haitian constitutional amendments, laws, decrees, and regulations, but it also has PDF full text of Le Moniteur, Journal officiel de la République d'Haïti (Haiti's official gazette of laws, in French), back to 1953.