A constitutional amendment (or constitutional alteration) is a modification of the constitution of a polity, organization or other type of entity. Amendments...

Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process...

constitutional amendment is a concept in judicial review based on the idea that even a properly passed and properly ratified constitutional amendment...

addressed via constitutional amendment in India. As a result, the Constitution is amended roughly twice a year. There are three types of amendments to the Constitution...

Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions of several different types passed, banning...

A balanced budget amendment or debt brake is a constitutional rule requiring that a state cannot spend more than its income. It requires a balance between...

win Congressional approval to go through the constitutional ratification process. Some proposed amendments are introduced over and over again in different...

initiative unaltered or it goes to the voters. An initiated constitutional amendment is an amendment to a state's constitution that results from petitioning...

article 89 and 42 state that "the plenary discussion of the draft constitutional amendment ... carries, on first reading to the first meeting, on the text...

controversial constitutional amendment in history. It attempted to reduce the power of the Supreme Court and High Courts to pronounce upon the constitutional validity...

Benedict, "Constitutional Politics, Constitutional Law, and the Thirteenth Amendment" (2012), p. 179. Benedict, "Constitutional Politics, Constitutional Law...

states from the federal constitutional amendment process and from abolition or interference by Congress. Although the Corwin Amendment does not explicitly...

whole, accumulating too much power". Various amendments aimed at changing informal precedent to constitutional law were proposed in Congress in the early...

The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution addresses issues related to presidential succession and disability. It clarifies...

series of constitutional amendments, it was suggested that the two houses first adopt a resolution indicating that they deemed amendments necessary....

The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan,the Constitution (Twenty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2024, is an amendment to the constitution of...

amendment can be amended. Some of the most famous constitutional amendments are the First Amendment to the United States Constitution which added the...

proposed to expand the constitutional definition of family to include durable relationships outside marriage. The Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution...

Third Amendment may refer to the: 2004 Arkansas Amendment 3, constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, civil unions and civil union equivalents in the...

either be voluntarily or, as is the case in many countries for a constitutional amendment, as a mandatory part of the procedure for passing a law. These...

the Supreme Court remarked that "ratification [of a proposed constitutional amendment] must be within some reasonable time after the proposal", and suggested...

a nearly insurmountable obstacle to constitutional reform. The amendment process crafted during the Constitutional Convention, James Madison later wrote...

Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Considered...

Heads of State and Government of the European Union. The 2012 constitutional amendments reduced the powers of the president even further. "Salome Zurabishvili...

informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment intended to ban same-sex marriage. It passed in the November 2008...

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Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state. The amendment supersedes...

unable to gain the legislative momentum necessary for passing a constitutional amendment. The drive to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 grew across the...

adoption of the Twenty-third Amendment. As early as 1888, some journalists and members of Congress favored a constitutional amendment to grant the district electoral...

local primaries. November 5, 2024: General election. 2024 Wyoming Constitutional Amendment A would "separate residential real property into its own class...