A constitutional amendment is a modification of the constitution of a polity, organization or other type of entity. Amendments are often interwoven into...

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

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

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

104. Although constitutional amendments require the support of a two-thirds majority in both houses of Parliament (with some amendments requiring ratification...

the task of constitutional amendment to a body other than the Legislature, nor did they favor a rigid special procedure for such amendments. They also...

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...

legislatively referred state constitutional amendment was originally introduced as California Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5 (ACA 5) by Democratic...

time the 1787 Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia, eight state constitutions included an amendment mechanism. Amendment-making power rested...

Fifth Amendment (or 105th Constitutional Amendment) to the Constitution of India- officially known as The Constitution (One Hundred and Fifth Amendment) Act...

the Constitution, amendments can be proposed by one of three methods: a People's Initiative, a Constituent Assembly or a Constitutional Convention. A fourth...

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

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

relationship to the federal government, and the shared process of constitutional amendment. Article VII establishes the procedure subsequently used by the...

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

However, this does not mean that they are absolute or immune from Constitutional amendment. Fundamental rights for Indians have also been aimed at overturning...

exercised by the prime minister of Turkey. However, constitutional amendments approved in the 2017 constitutional referendum abolished the office of prime minister...

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

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

on the next day. The amendment came into effect on 25 January 2020. 103rd Constitutional Amendment 102nd Constitutional Amendment Constitution of India...

the amendment are seldom litigated. However, the second section's reference to "rebellion, or other crime" has been invoked as a constitutional ground...

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

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

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

unable to gain the legislative momentum necessary for passing a constitutional amendment. The drive to lower the voting age from 21 to 16 grew across the...

The Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), also referred to by proponents as the Marriage Protection Amendment, was a proposed amendment to the United States...

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

Government of India, which was abolished in January 2020 by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019. The new parliament has a seating capacity of 888 for...

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...