This is one of the criticisms of democratic state ballot initiatives, where people directly vote for constitutional amendments. Billions of dollars can be spent on last minute deceptive commercials to sway the public, and secretaries of...
Lo, the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments, plus their emanations and penumbras, turn out to mean that abortion is nothing less than a woman’s constitutional right! Can all this be blind evolution? If liberals were more religious, they might suspect the hand of Providence behind it! This ...
but in any case, any proposed amendment still needs thirty-eight states to ratify it. There are easily twelve solid blue states in America and twelve solid red states. No one should fear that change would be too easy.
Hawaii became the first of 34 other states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, but the bill hit anti-feminist backlash in the mid-'70s and failed to become ratified by the necessary 38 states by its July 1982 deadline. [Pictured: Women ...
interest polls and not state or district specific. And unlike most of the rest of us, the gun crowd votes as a single issue bloc. It would be safer to wait for SCOTUS to reawaken than to open Pandora’s box of Constitutional reform and expect sensible amendatory language to come forth...
to go to war and to ratify treaties. The Commons has only been able to vote on these decisions after the fact and in restrictive ways – for example, via moving a no confidence motion in the government. TheConstitutional Reform and Governance...
Hawaii became the first of 34 other states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, but the bill hit anti-feminist backlash in the mid-'70s and failed to become ratified by the necessary 38 states by its July 1982 deadline. [Pictured: Women ...
Hawaii became the first of 34 other states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, but the bill hit anti-feminist backlash in the mid-'70s and failed to become ratified by the necessary 38 states by its July 1982 deadline. [Pictured: Women ...
allies after World War I, Wilson wouldn't allow Congress to modify the treaty. So the Senate refused to ratify it. Conversely, Lyndon Johnson's vast Great Society agenda was passed due to compromises he made with the legislative branch. The U.S. President as Commander in Chief President ...
Hawaii became the first of 34 other states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, but the bill hit anti-feminist backlash in the mid-'70s and failed to become ratified by the necessary 38 states by its July 1982 deadline. [Pictured: Women ...