1.(Placename) a state on the W coast of the US: the third largest state in area and the largest in population; consists of a narrow, warm coastal plain rising to the Coast Range, deserts in the south, the fertile central valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and the mount...
Part V concludes that a super-majority vote for changes to the Declaration of Rights would best achieve balance between the right of the voters to alter the Declaration of Rights and the right to an independent state constitution.Rachel A. Van Cleave...
Making the rights to abortion and contraception explicit in the state constitution — instead of relying on a right to privacy — would also protect against shifting political winds, said state Senate leader Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), who was the director of a women's health clinic in the 1...
The Bill of Rights is a section of the United States Constitution which originally did not exist in the document, and is, in part, inspired by provisions in the Magna Carta. The right to due process, trial by a jury of one's peers, no cruel or unusual punishment, the right to a sp...
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Local water agencies were expected to foot the roughly $16 billion bill. A single tunnel is expected to cost less, but officials haven't yet set a price tag, said Erin Mellon, spokeswoman for the state Department of Water Resources. Nor has the state determined how much water would flo...
Arizonans voted to amend the state constitution to include protections for the procedure. The battleground state is the latest of many to restore or expand abortion access since the fall of Roe v. Wade, but it’s the first to override a 15-week ban, the ...
Bill Dodd (D)- State Sen., Ex-State Assemblyman & Ex-Napa County Supervisor Susan Eggman (D)- State Sen., Ex-Stockton City Councilor, Social Worker & Army Veteran David Fennell (R)- Businessman & Frequent Candidate Mike Gatto (D)- Ex-State Assemblyman, Attorney & Ex-Congressional Aide ...
See The California State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Joseph R. Grodin, Calvin R. Massey, and Richard B. Cunningham, 1993) for a discussion of the history of the California Constitution and commentary on its provisions. 3 See also J. Fred Silva, The California Initiative Process: Backgro...
Over the last three decades, the state Supreme Court has led a national movement, in which state courts consistently have found that state constitutions afforded individuals broader rights than did the federal Constitution. The majority said, however, that because of Proposition 8, state law no lon...