Constitutional Amendment in a sentence

He told me personally that he supports the Equal Rights Amendment and a constitutional amendment to protect the right of privacy (the constitutional foundation needed to protect abortion rights, gay rights, etc.).

Similarly, the federal constitutional initiative allows citizens to put a constitutional amendment to a national vote, if 100,000 voters sign the proposed amendment within 18 months.

Attorney General, Likando Kalaluka has urged the Constitutional Court not to grant the Law Association of Zambia -LAZ- an injunction to halt the enactment of the Constitutional Amendment Bill number 10 of 2019.

LAZ filed the petition in the Constitutional Court to halt parliamentary proceedings on the 2019 Constitutional Amendment Bill.

An example of constitutional violation by the legislature is an attempt to pass a law that would contradict the constitution, without first going through the proper constitutional amendment process.

As these powers, which correspond to US executive orders, affect constitutional basic rights, the law was enacted in the same manner as a constitutional amendment.

The constitutional flaws in the process of presidential succession had been known since the death of President William Henry Harrison in 1841, but little progress had been made passing a constitutional amendment to remedy the problem.

The state legislature has retained power over local governments by refusing to pass a constitutional amendment establishing home rule for counties, as recommended by the 1973 Alabama Constitutional Commission.

Thus, in the 1970s, activists promoted the Hyde Amendment (which successfully prohibited federal funding of abortions through Medicaid) and pushed, unsuccessfully, a constitutional amendment banning abortion.

Bayh sponsored a constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18 amid protests over the Vietnam War, and helped craft the 25th Amendment on presidential succession.

DeSantis agrees with proponents of the amendment and a Leon County circuit judge that the smoking ban runs afoul of the constitutional amendment, approved by more than 71 percent of voters in 2016.

During the 2016 presidential elections, Coloradans approved Amendment 71, a constitutional amendment intended to create roadblocks for groups hoping to amend the state constitution via direct democracy.

He added that “every constitutional amendment has reasonable limits within it,” emphasizing the “” aspect of the second amendment.

Shapiro, p. 148. Although the Second Amendment is the only Constitutional amendment with a prefatory clause, such linguistic constructions were widely used elsewhere in the late eighteenth century.

Women's suffrage Wilson favored women's suffrage at the state level, but held off support for a nationwide constitutional amendment because his party was sharply divided, with the South opposing an amendment on the grounds of state's rights.

According to Colmenares, it would be hard to sell to the public any constitutional amendment that would entail removal or the stretching of term limits.

A constitutional amendment asking voters to change the state Constitution to guarantee equal rights regardless of gender had cleared the Senate but not the House.

Along with changing the threshold for approval from a simple majority to a three-fifths majority, the new resolution would also change the requirements for signature gathering to even put a constitutional amendment issue on the ballot.

And if our documents and records are changed from Afikpo South to Edda LGA in that constitutional amendment, it means Edda is going to become a household name in Ebonyi, in the South-East geo-political zone and in Nigeria.

As a constitutional amendment, Nevada’s proposal would need to pass both houses this session and in 2025.