Missouri voters could decide whether to restore abortion rights if proposed constitutional amendments make it on the 2024 ballot.
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The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an amendment to restoreabortion rightsin the state will be on the ballot. The proposed measure would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution, prohibiting any government interference related to the procedure. If it passes, it's expe...
in the state of Missouri, there is about a 60-65 percent turnout. In simple terms, this means that 50 percent +1 of that 60 percent is all that is needed to amend our constitution. In even simpler terms, that means that 30 percent of registered voters can amend the constitution....
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a law that tried to address growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery. By passing the law, which President James Monroe signed, the U.S. Congress admitted Missouri to the Union as a state that allowed slavery, and Maine as a free state. It ...
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and primary organizer and author of an omnibus state and local tax limitation amendment to the Missouri Constitution passed by the voters of Missouri in 1980. Placed on the ballot by an initiative petition process led by Hancock, what is commonly referred to as "The Hancock Amendment", consisted...
feeling that Southern slaveholding states held too much power already. The Constitution allowed states to count each slave as three-fifths of a person for purposes of determining population, and therefore, the number of Congressional representatives the state was entitled to. This had given the Sout...
Constitution, each state had at least one Representative and no more than one for every 30,000 people, but there was no clear definition on how large future Congresses for a growing America should be. Before passing the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, the method for calculating ...
for looking at [treatment courts], for considering it, and recognizing the importance,” said Rep. Kevin Austin, the sponsor of House Bill 2562. “Running the special session with the veto session, it’s not gonna be costly because we have to be there anyways according to the Constitution....