"To amend the constitution" means to make changes or additions to the fundamental laws of a country or organization. It involves altering the rules and principles that govern how the government or organization operates.
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This Constitution shall become effective one month after it shall have been ratified in accordance with the procedure established
for amending the Constitution of 1919.
Brennan's pursuit
of amending the Constitution through interpretation by unelected officials would cause him, among other things, to vote repeatedly to strike away the legal protections that a world dead and gone had traditionally afforded unborn human beings.
«There is already an effective process in place to
amend our Constitution without putting the basic rights of New Yorkers at risk,» he said in a statement.
Bill C - 7, An Act respecting the selection of senators and
amending the Constitution Act, 1867 in respect of Senate term limits (Senate Reform Act)
For that reason, I propose that we return this question to the political process as quickly as possible by
amending the Constitution as I suggested at the beginning of this article.
The federal government can not
unilaterally amend the Constitution because Canada is a federation but it does not want to work with the provinces and then it refuses to accept responsibility for being stuck.
The question was settled at the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1801,
which amended the Constitution, giving the right of nomination to the governor and each one of the Council members concurrently.
According to a poll funded by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, 74 percent of Oklahoma voters favor choosing appellate judges in contested elections over a merit selection and retention process, and 69 percent
support amending the constitution to make this change.
«The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is saying that its judgments about equality and fairness under the Massachusetts Constitution trump not only the judgment of the legislature, but the judgment of the
people amending the constitution itself.
When the Chinese government
recently amended the constitution to remove the two - term limit on presidencies, did that really mean President Xi is going to hang around for life, Mao - style?
Bonifacio Ilagan, who was jailed and tortured during Marcos» martial - law period, has said Duterte's references to martial law could be a «trial balloon» in order to assess public opinion
on amending the constitution to expand his ability to declare martial law.
Wishing to more successfully preserve future revenues,
Alaska amended its constitution to require a portion of the oil revenues be set aside in a savings fund for future generations.
To create a Senior Minister's
post amends the constitution and Mr. President would be breaching the very oath of office that is the basis of your authority as Head of State.
Even movements to
amend the Constitution move through state legislatures and Congress, so the regular voting population is only indirectly involved in the decision.
There has been at the staff level concerning a resolution that would pass this year, pass next year, that would go to voters, to
amend the Constitution regarding the redistricting proces as it is now.»
In a joint interview with Cobb on Vermont Public Radio, Ben Cohen explained this week that he originally
felt amending the constitution «was an incredibly high bar.
It
also amends the constitution's so - called Gann limit on state spending to re6quire a portion of any excess revenues to be earmarked for the schools and community colleges.
This might seem like a far - fetched possibility, but it is actually a realistic option in many states,
where amending the constitution, while not simple, has proved much easier than trying to amend the federal Constitution.
The effort to
amend the constitution resulted, in part, because of radical amendments made by the legislature and Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon in 2011 to the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act passed by Missouri voters just a few months earlier in 2010.
Most recently New
Jersey amended its constitution after a state supreme court ruling that making judges contribute more to the pension program was a diminishment
The people of Australia voted overwhelmingly to amend the Constitution [in 1967] so that the Parliament of Australia would be able to make special laws for peoples of the aboriginal race.
Heastie also backed out of a budget deadline deal to pass a bill that would have started the process
of amending the constitution to prevent state convicts like Silver from collecting their pensions.