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    The 2007 Texas constitutional amendment election took place 6 November 2007. Sixteen proposed amendments (propositions) appeared on the ballot — all of...
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    2023 Texas constitutional amendment election took place on November 7, 2023. Texas voters statewide voted on 14 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution...
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    2021 Texas constitutional amendment election took place on November 2, 2021. Texas voters statewide voted on eight proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution...
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    Thomas E. Dewey in the 1944 election. Near the end of the campaign, Dewey announced his support of a constitutional amendment to limit presidents to two...
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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...
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    Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions of several different types passed, banning...
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    conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states...
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    the amendment are seldom litigated. However, the second section's reference to "rebellion, or other crime" has been invoked as a constitutional ground...
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  • Amendments. In the late 1890s, the House of Representatives passed multiple resolutions for a constitutional amendment providing for direct election of...
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    determined by the patient’s healthcare provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent...
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    freedmen. By 1869, amendments had been passed to abolish slavery and provide citizenship and equal protection under the laws, but the election of Ulysses S...
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    the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was proposed to assuage Anti-Federalist opposition to Constitutional ratification...
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    United States Congress, James Madison put together a package of constitutional amendments designed to address the concerns of Anti-Federalists, who were...
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  • ballot, and to be voted upon in a future election (These may be further divided into constitutional amendments and statutory initiatives. Statutory initiatives...
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    Lincoln's 1864 election platform resolved to abolish slavery by constitutional amendment. After winning reelection in the election of 1864, Lincoln...
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    the Constitution 61 years after the Twelfth Amendment, the longest interval between constitutional amendments to date. Slavery had been tacitly enshrined...
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    The 2026 Texas gubernatorial election is scheduled to take place on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Greg...
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    of the Constitutional Court at the apex of the court system. Other provisions of the amendment: allowed the term of office of a Constitutional Court judge –...
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    Justice Mandatory Retirement Amendment Pros and Cons Texas Constitutional Amendment on November 2007 Ballot Archived 2007-11-11 at the Wayback Machine...
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    the 1964 election, but Senator Roman Hruska of Nebraska took up Keating's cause as a new member of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. By the...
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    The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states...
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    2006 United States Senate election in Texas was held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison won re-election to a third full term. As...
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    The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791, along...
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    Texas elections were held on November 7, 2023. Texas voters statewide voted on 14 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. A special election took...
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    Presidential eligibility of Donald Trump (category Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution)
    presidential election was the subject of dispute due to his involvement in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, through the 14th Amendment to the U...
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