Constitutional Convention Procedures: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 3, S. 520 and S. 1710 ... November 29, 1979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 1372 páginas |
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... arguments , such as the arguments you have just eloquently put forth , should be arguments decided by the convention . With reference to the consensus , the consensus is reflected in a num- ber of ways , specifically , in the process ...
... arguments , such as the arguments you have just eloquently put forth , should be arguments decided by the convention . With reference to the consensus , the consensus is reflected in a num- ber of ways , specifically , in the process ...
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... argument is that the establishment of procedures might make it easier for state legisla- tures to seek a national convention , and might even encourage them to do so.13 Underlying this argument is the belief that , at least in modern ...
... argument is that the establishment of procedures might make it easier for state legisla- tures to seek a national convention , and might even encourage them to do so.13 Underlying this argument is the belief that , at least in modern ...
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... argument that the bill was valid because Article I , Section 4 refers to the state " Legislatures , " the Court stated : " The use in the Federal Constitution of the same term in different relations does not always imply the same ...
... argument that the bill was valid because Article I , Section 4 refers to the state " Legislatures , " the Court stated : " The use in the Federal Constitution of the same term in different relations does not always imply the same ...
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... To defer the establishment of procedures to a time when their use was imminent , it was felt , would court a constitutional crisis by encouraging result - oriented approaches . As for the argument that procedures should not be adopted 166.
... To defer the establishment of procedures to a time when their use was imminent , it was felt , would court a constitutional crisis by encouraging result - oriented approaches . As for the argument that procedures should not be adopted 166.
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... argument , even to such a patient committee as this . I am a man of mercy . But I do want to draw this committee's attention to my full , but I think not terribly prolix argument in my letter of June 1 to Senator Kennedy , to which I ...
... argument , even to such a patient committee as this . I am a man of mercy . But I do want to draw this committee's attention to my full , but I think not terribly prolix argument in my letter of June 1 to Senator Kennedy , to which I ...
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1st Sess 96th Congress action adopted amending the Constitution amendment process American Bar Association approval Article V convention Articles of Confederation authority balanced budget balanced budget amendment Bar Report believe Birch Bayh call a convention Committee concurrent resolution Cong Congress to call consider consti constitutional amendment convention called convention delegates Convention for proposing convention method Convention of 1787 convention's debate decisions DELLINGER effect electorate Ervin Bill framers governor gress House of Representatives initiating issue judicial review Judiciary latures legislation limited convention Madison majority means ment method of amendment mode of ratification national constitutional convention petitions Philadelphia Convention political President problem Professor propose an amendment proposed amendment purpose question ratification reapportionment reason rescind revision Section Senator BAYH specific stitution submitted supra note Supreme Court three-fourths tion tional U.S. CONST United United States Constitution valid applications vention veto vote
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Página 96 - Prominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; or the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion...
Página 192 - Provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the year 1808, shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate.
Página 666 - ... a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; or the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion ; or the impossibility of a court's undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government ; or an unusual need for unquestioning adherence...
Página 394 - I will venture to add that to me the Convention mode seems preferable, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions, originated by others, not especially chosen for the purpose, and which might not be precisely such as they would wish to either accept or refuse.
Página 613 - It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
Página 245 - But the articles to be amended, and the amendments proposed, and such articles as are proposed to be added or abolished, shall be promulgated at least six months before the day appointed for the election of such convention, for the previous consideration of the people, that they may have an opportunity of instructing their delegates on the subject.
Página 493 - States (which at present amount to nine), to call a convention for proposing amendments, which shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof." The words of this article are peremptory. The Congress "shall call a convention.
Página 563 - Each House shall determine the rules of its proceedings, and be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its members...
Página 344 - Resolved that provision ought to be made for the amendment of the Articles of Union whensoever it shall seem necessary, and that the assent of the National Legislature ought not to be required thereto.
Página 129 - Congress sine die ; but (2) in the computation of the sixty-day period there shall be excluded the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain.