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| | Some Proposed Amendments - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net |
 | | Other proposed amendments to otherwise affect the 22nd, such as replacing the two-term limit with a single six-year term, extend back to at least 1979's 96th Congress, but were not included in this list. | | | Proposed amendments are a reflection of the mood of the nation, or of a subset of the population. | | | These lists are simple bullets, not detailed examinations of the proposed amendments, the bills that carried them, or the process they went through. |
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| | Ben's Guide (6-8): Glossary |
| | The Constitution of the United States, as provided in Article 5, may be amended when two thirds of each house of Congress approves a proposed amendment and three fourths of the states thereafter ratify it. | | | Amendment: A proposal by a Member (in committee or floor session of the respective Chamber) to alter the language or provisions of a bill or act. | | | Ratification: Two uses of this term are: (1) the act of approval of a proposed constitutional amendment by the legislatures of the States; (2) the Senate process of advice and consent to treaties negotiated by the President. |
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http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/glossary.html
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| | Some Proposed Amendments - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net |
| | Other proposed amendments to otherwise affect the 22nd, such as replacing the two-term limit with a single six-year term, extend back to at least 1979's 96th Congress, but were not included in this list. | | | Proposed amendments are a reflection of the mood of the nation, or of a subset of the population. | | | One of the ways that the Constitution is changed is through the amendment process. |
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| | United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | List of signatories of the United States Constitution. | | | The Constitution was originally proposed as an amendment of the Articles of Confederation, which required ratification by all 13 of the original states for amendments to take effect. | | | Proposed amendments, whether submitted by a convention or by Congress, must be ratified by three-fourths of the states to take effect; the Article gives Congress the option of requiring ratification by state legislatures or by conventions called in each state. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
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| | The Avalon Project : Amendments to the Constitution Proposed by the Hartford Convention, 1814. |
| | Resolved.-That the following amendments of the Constitution of the United States, be recommended to the States as aforesaid, to be proposed by them for adoption by the State Legislatures, and, in such cases as may be deemed expedient, by a Convention chosen by the people of each State. | | | Amendments to the Constitution Proposed by the Hartford Convention, 1814. | | | The Avalon Project : Amendments to the Constitution Proposed by the Hartford Convention, 1814. |
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/amerdoc/hartconv.htm
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| | Federal Constitution @ LSNC.net |
| | United States Constitution @ GPO Access - includes analyses and interpretation of various constitutional provisions, list of proposed amendments not ratified by the states, and constitutional sections and amendments in PDF format. | | | United States Constitution @ FindLaw - the whole enchilada, with annotations and pertinent case cites, divided into individual sections with links between sections and to Supreme Court cases cited in the annotations. | | | Federal Courts Federal Statutes Federal Regulations Federal Constitution Federal Government |
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| | Oregon - encyclopedia article about Oregon. |
| | Under his leadership, the state overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure in 1902 that created the initiative and referendum processes for citizens to directly introduce or approve proposed laws or amendments to the state constitution. | | | Oregon is a state A U.S. state is any one of the fifty states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, together with the District of Columbia and Palmyra Atoll (an uninhabited incorporated unorganized territory), form the United States of America. | | | The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the United States Supreme Court. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Oregon
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| | President of the United States - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | The United States presidential line of succession is a well-detailed list of government officials to serve or act as President upon a vacancy in the office due to death, resignation, or removal from office (by impeachment and conviction). | | | The president must be a natural-born citizen of the United States (or a citizen of the United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have been a resident of the United States for 14 years. | | | Because of the superpower status of the United States, the American President is often dubbed "the most powerful person on Earth" and the occupant is often one of the world's best-known figures. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/president_of_the_united_states.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: State legislature |
| | Under the terms of Article V of the United States Constitution, state lawmakers retain the power to ratify amendments to the U.S. Constitution which have been proposed by Congress and they also retain the ability to "apply" for a national convention to propose amending the nation's highest legal document. | | | State legislatures appointed the U.S. Senators from their respective states until the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1917 brought about the direct election of Senators by the voters. | | | List of state legislatures in the United States |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/State-legislature
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| | Constitutional Amendments - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net |
| | This page will detail the amendment procedure as spelled out in the Constitution, and will also list some of the Amendments that have not been passed, as well as give a list of some amendments proposed in Congress during several of the past sessions. | | | Amending the United States Constitution is no small task. | | | Another way the Constitution's meaning is changed is often referred to as "informal amendment." This phrase is a misnomer, because there is no way to informally amend the Constitution, only the formal way. |
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http://www.usconstitution.net/constam.html
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| | CREC & University of Hartford "Amending the Constitution 1999: An Exercise in Democracy" |
| | This project imagines that Congress, at the request of 2/3 of the state legislatures, has done what the Constitution permits but the Congress has never done before: Called for a national convention to amend the Constitution of the United States of America. | | | Amendment Proposals will be passed by a Constitutional Convention of delegates from classes held at the University of Hartford on May 8, 1999 and proposed amendments will be considered ratified when passed by 3/4 of the participating classes. | | | Directions to the University of Hartford, the convention schedule, and convention rules are posted here. |
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| | ARMED CITIZENS, CITIZEN ARMIES: TOWARD A JURISPRUDENCE OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT |
| | This article asserted with parochial pride that "[i]t may well be remembered that the following amendments to the new constitution of the United States, were introduced to the convention of this Commonwealth by... | | | by purchasing a pamphlet that conveniently listed the amendments proposed by the state ratifying conventions, and his list of amendments was chosen from that pamphlet. | | | This broad construction of the Second Amendment secured the indirect endorsement of the United States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, which played such a role in bringing on the Civil War. |
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| | Vote - encyclopedia article about Vote. |
| | It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California. | | | Elections by calendar This electoral calendar lists the national/federal direct elections in the countries listed in the list of countries. | | | Parties by name Welcome to the index of political parties, an alphabetical list of (mainly) present-day political parties listed in the list of political parties. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Vote
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| | News and Information from Alaska State Senator Dave Donley |
| | Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to revisions of the state constitution and providing that a court may not change language of a proposed constitutional amendment or revision. | | | SJR 15 : Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the appointment and confirmation of supreme court justices and superior court judges and to approval or rejection of justices and judges during certain general elections. | | | SJR 6 : Urging the President of the United States and the Congress to act to ensure that federal agencies do not retain records relating to lawful purchase or ownership of firearms gathered through the Brady Handgun Bill instant check system. |
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| | The 5th edition also includes a very helpful table of abbreviations; the text of the United States Constitution and the proposed Equal Rights and District of Columbia amendments; a table listing the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1789 to 1975; and a table of British regnal years. | | | An author list of some 5,000 (1970 -1978) articles and papers drawn from scholarly journals, conference proceedings, specialist anthologies and chiefly on the central topics of linguistics: syntactic, semantic, philological and pragmatic theory. | | | Lists and provides summaries of the most significant material published on archaeology in over 200 British, Irish and foreign periodicals, monograph series, books and reference works. |
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http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/greencards/B.htm
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| | Testimony of Phyllis Schlafly on the Continuity of Government |
| | The text of COG's proposed constitutional amendment contains far more words than the entire ten amendments of the Bill of Rights and is a Rube Goldberg-like plan (i.e., complex and impractical). | | | The United States survived the real national emergencies of the Civil War and the burning the U.S. Capitol by the British in 1814 without giving up our right to elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives. | | | COG's co-chairman is Lloyd Cutler, confidant of Presidents Carter and Clinton, who was also co-chairman of the 1983 Committee on the Constitutional System that tried (fortunately unsuccessfully) to change the U.S. Constitution in a dozen ways in order to eliminate our Separation of Powers. |
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