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| | Constitutional amendment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The use of appended articles of amendment is most famous as a feature of the United States Constitution, but it is also the method of amendment in a number of other jurisdictions, such as Venezeula. | | | Some constitutions use entrenched clauses to restrict the kind of amendment to which they may be subject. | | | Amendments are often totally forbidden during a state of emergency or martial law. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_amendment
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| | First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. | | | The Supreme Court has held that the Fourteenth Amendment extends the limitations of the First Amendment to actions by the states. | | | Prior to the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court generally took the position that the substantive protections of the Bill of Rights did not apply to actions by state governments. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment
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| | Constitutional amendment - Free Encyclopedia |
| | With the United States Constitution, amendments are appended to the original text, which in itself is not modified. | | | The term constitutional amendment usually refers to a special procedure by which a constitution may be altered. | | | In the United Kingdom, which has no written constitution, but subscribes to parliamentary supremacy, the legislature has the power to enact any law it wishes, even if rules that are considered to be part of the British constitutional law would be affected. |
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http://www.wacklepedia.com/c/co/constitutional_amendment.html
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| | Constitutional Amendment Summary |
| | Proposing an amendment to the amendment and revision section of the Constitution of the State of Alaska. | | | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska to allow the state to give preference to residents of the state over people who are not residents of the state, to the same extent allowed by the U.S. Constitution. | | | Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the rights of victims of crimes and to criminal administration. |
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http://www.gov.state.ak.us/ltgov/akcon/summary.html
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| | The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net |
| | The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. | | | The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. | | | All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. |
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http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am15
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| | FindLaw's Writ - Brownstein: President Bush's Proposed Same-Sex Marriage Amendment |
| | Moreover, there is another possible amendment procedure provided for under Article V of the Constitution: Two-thirds of the state legislatures may call for a "convention" to consider amendments. | | | Further, proposals to amend state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage are legitimated by the ongoing litigation in many jurisdictions that seek to use state constitutional law to remove legal obstacles to such relationships. | | | State constitutions are so much more easily amended than is their federal counterpart - most often by a simple majority vote of the state polity - that it is much harder to argue that such state amendments relating to same-sex marriage are short-circuiting democracy in the same way. |
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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20050204_brownstein.html
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| | A Shotgun Amendment |
| | A constitutional amendment that defines marriage would protect the states' capacity to regulate marriage by sustaining it as an institution. | | | The very consideration of an amendment that focuses on marriage would be an important vehicle for a nationwide debate about the nature, purpose and legal status of the institution of marriage. | | | The institution must be reformulated to accommodate homosexual couples that are legally entitled to marriage under the Massachusetts state constitution. |
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http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed031004b.cfm
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| | Constitutional Amendment to Allow Foreign-Born Citizens to be President |
| | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to make eligible for the Office of President a person who has been a United States citizen for twenty years. | | | H. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to make eligible for the Office of President a person who has been a United States citizen for twenty years. | | | The Constitution of the United States, indeed the entire founding of the United States of America, is one of those solitary miracles of human history, not unlike the operas of Mozart or the symphonies of Beethoven. |
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http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju67306.000/hju67306_0.HTM
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| | USFlag.org: A website dedicated to the Flag of the United States of America - Constitutional Amendendment Issue |
| | The amendment is in response to Supreme Court rulings in 1989 and 1990 that struck down federal and state statutes prohibiting flag desecration, holding that those laws infringed on the right to free speech and expression under the First Amendment. | | | If the amendment is adopted by the Senate and ratified by the states, it would be the first revision to the Bill of Rights since it was passed in 1792. | | | The First Amendment - protecting religious practice, expression, journalism, peaceful assembly, and petitioning the government for redress of grievances - was established with a personal history of these rights being demolished. |
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http://www.usflag.org/amendment.html
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| | Proposed Constitutional Amendments |
| | Any provision of state constitutional law that may prohibit or limit the authority of a political subdivision of the state to incur debt does not apply to those loans or grants. | | | "The constitutional amendment authorizing the denial of bail to a criminal defendant who violates a condition of the defendant's release pending trial." | | | HJR 6 would provide that marriage in Texas is solely the union of a man and woman, and that the state and its political subdivisions could not create or recognize any legal status identical to or similar to marriage, including such legal status relationships created outside of Texas. |
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http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/2005novconsamend.shtml
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| | S.J. res. 1 - Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment |
| | An article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is ratified and becomes a part of the Constitution when the "three-quartereth" State (38 | | | Nevertheless, the Balanced-Budget Amendment remains extremely contentious in the Senate, as evidenced by a number of amendments offered in the Judiciary Committee which would either undermine the enforcement provisions of the amendment or make it impossible for future Congresses to comply with its provisions. | | | They should then demonstrate to the American people how the amendment can be implemented before adopting this amendment, not after. |
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http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1997/v5.htm
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| | Conservatives push gay marriage ban / Constitutional amendment sought |
| | Many read that as support for a constitutional amendment, given that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act already requires marriage to be between a man and a woman for federal purposes, such as in the case of taxes and immigration law, and authorizes states to ignore any same-sex marriages granted by other states. | | | Neither this Constitution nor the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups." | | | Conservatives who have long warned that the federal government has too much power over the states find a constitutional amendment depriving states of one of their most long-standing jurisdictions -- marriage laws -- highly unpalatable. |
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/13/GAYS.TMP
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| | Hold The Mayo: Open Source Constitutional Amendment |
| | The Fifth Amendment to this Constitution states that property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation. | | | The right to ownership of one's property being the cornerstone of liberty, the Fifth Amendment to this Constitution's statement that property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation shall be narrowly construed. | | | An amendment to the Constitution limiting the taking power of government by expressly limiting the scope of “public use” to actual public use. |
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http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/095398.php
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| | The American Thinker |
| | The amendments the “pseudos” were pushing would entail “tampering with the First Amendment,” Yoder averred. | | | Section 3: The provisions of this Constitution’s first eight articles of amendment shall apply to the states as well as to the United States; but in every other respect, they shall be expounded according to the rules set forth in Section 1 of this article. | | | Obviously, the First Amendment was originally intended and understood to protect all means of individual and mass communication, whether written or oral, whether verbal or symbolic. |
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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4402
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| | NoGayMarriage.com -- Help Save Marriage! Sign the Marriage Protection Amendment petition |
| | There are cases in several courts across the country in which the pro-homosexual marriage proponents are attempting to get an activist judge to legalize homosexual marriage. | | | We need the Marriage Protection Amendment, which defines marriage as being only between one man and one woman, in our Constitution to keep activist judges from forcing their view of marriage on every American. | | | I urge you to pass the Marriage Protection Amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman only. |
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http://www.nogaymarriage.com
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| | Proposed Constitutional Amendments for 2002 Ballot - Division of Elections - Department of State |
| | The 1st District Court of Appeal declined to certify a discretionary appeal on Amendment No. 5 to the Supreme Court, denied the stay and ordered that the ballot title and summary be stricken from the general election ballot. | | | Therefore, the amendments on the ballot will simply skip Amendment No. 5 and go from Amendment No. 4 to Amendment No. 6. | | | For this reason Amendment No. 5 was removed from the ballot. |
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http://election.dos.state.fl.us/initiatives/2002ballot.shtml
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| | Call for Constitutional Amendment to overturn the decision of the Supreme Court in the matter of Kelo vs. New London ... |
| | This power extends from the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which says in part that "private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation." Kelo et al argued that economic development, the stated purpose of the Development Corporation, did not qualify as public use. | | | An Amendment must be created to limit the use of eminent domain by Federal and State government(s) and to protect American Citizens from future violation. | | | The owners sued the city in Connecticut courts, arguing that the city had misused its eminent domain power. |
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http://www.petitiononline.com/5amend/petition.html
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| | Bush weighs marriage amendment - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics |
| | States could opt to bestow some benefits on same-sex couples, but this would have to be done through civil unions — not marriage — and it would have to be decided by state legislatures, not the courts. | | | Cornyn said the law may need to be strengthened, depending on the outcome of state court rulings. | | | Bush wants to wait for court rulings in Massachusetts and New Jersey before deciding whether to support a proposed constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030731-110146-4514r.htm
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| | CNN.com - Bush calls for ban on same-sex marriages - Feb. 25, 2004 |
| | Bush also said state legislatures should be left to define "legal arrangements other than marriage," suggesting that such an amendment would allow states to establish civil unions for same-sex couples. | | | President Bush endorsed a constitutional amendment Tuesday that would restrict marriage to two people of the opposite sex but leave open the possibility that states could allow civil unions. | | | He did not sign onto a specific bill, but called on Congress to pass and send to the states for ratification an amendment "defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and woman as husband and wife." |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/24/elec04.prez.bush.marriage
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| | House OKs flag desecration amendment - Politics - MSNBC.com |
| | The amendment is designed to overturn a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in 1989 that flag burning is a protected free-speech right. | | | The period for states to ratify it expired in 1982. | | | That ruling threw out a 1968 federal statute as well as flag-protection laws in 48 states. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8318974
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| | House Rejects Same-Sex Marriage Ban (washingtonpost.com) |
| | The proposed amendment defines marriage as occurring only between "a man and a woman" and says neither the federal nor state constitutions can be interpreted to "require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman." | | | Critics of the proposal argue that it could jeopardize civil unions that create some legal and financial protections for same-sex couples, a concern that was described as groundless by amendment supporters but appeared to play a role in the proposal's defeat. | | | Last week, it voted to bar federal courts from considering challenges to the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63122-2004Sep30.html
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| | WorldNetDaily: Measure would repeal 16th Amendment |
| | Most of all, the Liberty Amendment is an initiative aimed at reducing the size and scope of the federal government," he wrote. | | | Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks for itself: "Three years after the ratification of this amendment, the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts." | | | While there have been several legal challenges to the veracity of the 16th Amendment's ratification, all such challenges have been rejected by the courts. |
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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22732
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| | deseretnews.com Give 'Terminator' a shot at White House? |
| | The amendment was referred for consideration to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Hatch chairs. | | | He said it received scant debate during the Constitutional Convention but said it was apparently driven "by the concern that a European monarch, such as King George III's second son, the Duke of York, might be imported to the United States" to rule. | | | A constitutional amendment must pass both houses of Congress by two-thirds votes and then be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures to become law. |
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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,510039949,00.html
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| | Feminist Daily News 5/29/2003: Anti-Gay Marriage Constitutional Amendment Introduced in House |
| | The Federal Marriage Amendment is seen as an attempt by conservative forces to counteract possible court rulings that would nullify the 37 state DOMA laws as well as the 1996 federal DOMA law. | | | Massachusetts is currently considering a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage that also would prevent state recognition of civil unions and prohibit domestic partners from receiving health benefits. | | | If the bill, which also was introduced a year ago, were to become a constitutional amendment - it would first have to pass a joint session of Congress by a supermajority of two-thirds and be ratified by the legislatures of 38 states within 10 years. |
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http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=7819
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| | CNN.com - White House considers constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage - Jul. 31, 2003 |
| | The amendment is being pushed by conservative groups and is pending in the House of Representatives. | | | Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, has endorsed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. | | | A Bush spokesman said Thursday a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is an option being considered at the White House, but the president and his lawyers are waiting for state court rulings to see "what may be needed." |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/31/bush.gay.marriage
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| | Gay News From 365Gay.com |
| | Ashcroft also implied that if a constitutional amendment is sought, it would be partly because of former president Bill Clinton. | | | And, Ashcroft suggested that a constitutional amendment might also void civil unions such as those legalized by Vermont. | | | Appearing on "Fox News Sunday" Ashcroft said whether a constitutional amendment is needed will depend largely on how courts rule in Massachusetts and New Jersey. |
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http://www.365gay.com/NewsContent/080403ashcroftMarriage.htm
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| | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT APPROVAL ACT |
| | 1 The government must not introduce a motion for a resolution of the Legislative Assembly authorizing an amendment to the Constitution of Canada unless a referendum has first been conducted under the Referendum Act with respect to the subject matter of that resolution. | | | AND WHEREAS the Constitution of Canada is the Supreme Law of Canada; | | | AND WHEREAS constitutional amendment has an impact on all British Columbians; |
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http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/statreg/stat/C/96067_01.htm
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| | Balanced Budget Amendment Special Report Series - 1/16/97 |
| | The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released a series of analyses offering new perspectives on the problems of the constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. | | | Balanced Budget Amendment Would Significantly Increase Risks of a Government Default | | | Enforcement of a Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment: Questions Without Answers |
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http://www.cbpp.org/bba.htm
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| | Constitutional Equality Amendment |
| | Why We Need a Constitutional Guarantee of Equality for Women | | | Article by Patricia Ireland: "Women's Less Than Full Equality Under The U.S. Constitution" |
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http://www.now.org/issues/economic/cea
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| | NARA The National Archives Experience |
| | Presidential historian Michael Beschloss moderates this discussion with members of Congress on the impact of high-speed communications, instantaneous news, and public expectations of quick results on basic constitutional principles such as "separation of powers" and "federalism." |
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http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/charters.html
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