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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"constitutional amendment"”.
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Authorizing revolutionary constitutional change : constituent power, legitimacy, and the revolutionary constitutional amendment
… efforts to reconcile growing disharmonies in a constitutional system are no longer sufficient, requiring a new approach that will transform the identity of the constitutional order. The periodic need for transformative change has led scholars to analyze constitutional revolutions and their role …
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A study of Proposition 14 of the 1964 California general election
… presented to the electorate than the initiative constitutional amendment known as Proposition 14 which appeared on the 1964 General Election ballot.</p><p>Proposition 14 was a propsed amendment to the Constitution of the State of California which would prohibit the state, its agencies, and local …
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Examining Contemporary Congressional Theories Historically: Essays on the Congress of the Confederate States of America
… due to partisan activity within the Confederate Constitutional Convention. In short, Democrats used their majority status to prohibit, through Constitutional amendment, the two major issues (protective tariffs and federal funding for internal improvements) that served as the basis for the Whig …
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The power to negotiate : examining mandating procedures in the National Council of Provinces and their impact on legislation and other parliamentary processes
… of South Africa, followed by a discussion of the constitutional and legislative framework from which the NCOP derives its mandate and a brief comparison of the NCOP to the second chamber of the German Federal Republic, the Bundesrat. The discussion of the Mandating Procedures of Provinces Act, …
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Informal constitutional change: towards a South African theory of unconstitutional constitutional change
… I explore the phenomenon of informal constitutional change. In particular: I focus on how courts are able to change the content, scope and meaning of a constitution without its text ever changing. Drawing on work in constitutional theory, I explore whether such change can be legitimate …
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Ratification of the twenty-sixth amendment
… to secure ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which provided that the minimum voting age in all elections be lowered to eighteen. Common Cause, a nonpartisan, citizens' lobby, headquartered in Washington, D.C., was one of the principal organizations which lobbied for the passage of …
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O compromisso constitucional de acesso à justiça: a assistência jurídica no estado da Bahia, à luz do artigo 98 do ato das disposições constitucionais transitórias
… in mind the article 98 of the Transitional Constitutional Provisions Act, included by the Constitutional Amendment No. 80/2014, determines that, until June 2022, all jurisdictional units, federal and state, must have units of the Public Defender´s Oficce, this bibliographic, explanatory, …
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Jacksonian Democracy and the Electoral College: Politics and Reform in the Method of Selecting Presidential Electors, 1824-1833
… few true reformers who consistently pushed for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing that all states used the same method, the conclusion must be that politics and party demanded a change. This study relies heavily on legislative records at both the state and national level and newspapers …
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Mr. Diefenbaker, parliamentary democracy, and the Canadian Bill of Rights
… that in order to entrench the Bill by way of constitutional amendment, the consent of all provincial governments was surely necessary, and, in all probablility, not possible to secure. At best, it meant years of delay. This explanation has, in fact, become conventional wisdom, virtually …
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Legislating Citizenship in the United States: The Impact of State Building on Woman Sufferage Legislation, 1848-1918
… were conferred the power to submit a constitutional amendment to the electorate for approval. I use a sequential random-effects logistic regression model to estimate the effects of state building on legislative outcome. Legislative outcome is measured in three stages: whether or not a …
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Os mecanismos de efetivação da convenção internacional sobre os direitos das pessoas com deficiência no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro
… through Decree no. 6.949 / 2009, with Constitutional Amendment status. It promotes a paradigm shift about the phenomenon of disability, presenting new premises to understand, promote and ensure rights to this group. In this context, it is considered that the treaty establishes several …
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Nomenclaturas aplicadas à CASP: uma análise do discurso dos gestores de saúde do Estado da Paraíba
… resources and these must be administered. As of Constitutional Amendment 19/98, the public administration began to have a special concern to provide its services promptly, bringing efficiency and effectiveness in the provision of service, with less waste of resources possible for the …
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The National Dividend Plan: a public choice analysis
… attention. The Plan involves a proposed constitutional amendment which would prohibit the corporate income tax rate from exceeding fifty percent of net income; make corporation dividends nontaxable income to the recipient; and redistribute funds raised by the corporate income tax to those …
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Sectionalism and the Representation Debate, 1787-1792
… issue was first debated during the Constitutional Convention in 1787. After a temporary settlement of the representation guestion in the Convention, the First Congress re-opened the apportionment debate. The result was a constitutional amendment that would have significantly …
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Keeping promises in federal systems: the legal status of intergovernmental agreements with special reference to Belgium and Canada
… redesign federal structures on the margins of constitutional norms. They are used to circumvent the formal distribution of powers and to introduce asymmetrical arrangements. They act as substitutes for constitutional reform or serve to by-pass constitutional amendment procedures. They can have …
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National survey of school board members' perceived religious and political leanings and their attitudes on selected education issues
… of the respondents agreed that America needed a constitutional amendment allowing prayer in public schools. In the area of school choice, almost two-thirds of the respondents agreed that school choice plans will widen economic and racial gaps between schools. However, when examining the responses …
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Five Computer Programs Developed for Secondary Social Studies
… with a "yes" or "no" answer on the question of Constitutional rights. When correct, the student receives a score and is presented with the judicial decision or particular Constitutional Amendment pertaining to the situation. An incorrect response reduces the score and the correct decision or …
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Virginia and the Equal Rights Amendment
In 1972, the campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) began in the states. Many states quickly ratified the amendment but the ERA stalled fifteen states short of the necessary three-fourths to become part of the United States Constitution. Virginia was one of the states who did not …