Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Following the failed referendum in Latvia on constitutional amendments, Baltic reports that President Valdis Zatlers and - so far - the Civic Union party (PS) are instead putting forward their respective proposals for constitutional amendments to an extraordinary session of the Latvian parliament - the Saeima.
CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Supporters of a proposed Florida constitutional amendment requiring voters to approve changes in local growth management plans are fighting to get the amendment back on November's ballot, telling a federal judge in West Palm Beach Wednesday that a host of discrepancies and problems improperly blocked the measure from the November ballot.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
The legal battle over a proposed Florida constitutional amendment on growth management is going before a federal judge in West Palm Beach.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday criticized proposed constitutional amendments put forth by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe that would strip the country's High Court of the authority to investigate sitting legislators for alleged relationships with right-wing paramilitaries. The amendments would require that cases against current members of Congress first go to a local...
Blog from the Capital (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
A Florida circuit judge has rejected arguments challenging the upcoming (misguided) ballot initiatives that would remove the state's "no aid to religion" provisions and pave the way for a school voucher program. Plaintiffs maintain that the constitutional amendments put forward...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Two proposed state constitutional amendments that could expand school vouchers will stay on the Nov. 4 ballot, a judge ruled Monday.
Votelaw (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Florida Times-Union reports: Two proposed state constitutional amendments that could expand school vouchers will stay on the Nov. 4 ballot, a judge ruled Monday. The statewide teachers union and other organizations that challenged the proposals said they would appeal....
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
TALLAHASSEE - A judge on Monday heard arguments over whether two state constitutional amendments that could expand school vouchers should appear on the Nov. 4 ballot, and he promised a quick ruling.
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
*Constitutional Court extended the parliament's work until the supplementary budget approval* The First Deputy Parliament Speaker Khaled al-Attiyah approval of the Supreme Constitutional Court to extend the work of the Council until the supplementary budget approval. Al-Attiyah explained in an...
Alternet (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Most Americans would probably be surprised to learn that there is no provision of the Constitution or federal law that affirmatively guarantees all citizens the right to vote. Neither the U.S. Constitution nor the 1965 Voting Rights Act nor any other federal law explicitly ensures such a right. Even the post-Civil War amendments to the Constitution do not explicitly guarantee the right to vote...
Baltic Times (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
RIGA- Latvian President Valdis Zatlers submitted a legal initiative to the parliament, calling them to urgently decide on constitutional amendments, enabling citizens to dissolve the parliament. The president, addressing the parliament at a special meeting, said that this is the right time for
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Supporters of a proposed Florida constitutional amendment requiring voters to approve changes in local growth management plans told a federal judge Wednesday that a host of discrepancies and problems improperly blocked the measure from the November ballot.
The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
Georgia Republican Congressman Paul Broun will win reelection in November. In April he introduced a bill to prohibit the sale of pornography on military bases. He followed that up in May with a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Then last month he fought off his primary challenger by questioning his religious convictions. (His opponent was an active Christian who, among...
Blog of the Moderate Left (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
I’m not 100 percent sure, but I think this is the first national poll to have support for marriage equality even with opposition: Time Magazine, 808 RV, July 31-August 4, 2008 Should gay couples be allowed to marry? Yes 47% No 47% Don’t Know 6% Support anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment? Yes 35% No 58% Don’t Know 7% The numbers on support for marriage equality have [...]
Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
... obsolete and incomprehensible. But let us recall how slavery got abolished — the anti slavery amendment in the US Constitution (the thirteenth amendment) provided that slavery should not exist within the United States; and empowered Congress to enforce it by appropriate legislation. It was passed in the very last session of the US Congress after the November 1864 elections, which...
