Essays Tagged: "Constitutional amendment"
Can we make ends meet?
should return to balance orsurplus during boom times.According to the article, 'The Balanced Budget ConstitutionalAmendment,' (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, January 9,1995), the Reagan admin ... et into deficit,even if a balanced budget had been planned at the beginning ofthe fiscal year. If a constitutional amendment requires thegovernment to balance spending and revenues at the end of theye ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
This essay compares the views of booker t washington and DU bois.
Prop 54 is a California constitutional initiative that will come before voters in the next statewide election, currently sch ... ink about race. Proposition 54, lead by UC Regent Ward Connerly, who campaigned for Prop. 209, is a constitutional amendment that would ban the state from collecting racial data. Prop. 209 is the init ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
"women's suffrage movement in the 1920's"
ed legislation to set up a national system of women's and infant's health care clinics as well as a constitutional amendment prohibiting child labor, a measure supported by many women's groups.But the ... n the mid-1920s. Opposition from many southern states and the Catholic Church defeated the proposed constitutional amendment outlawing child labor. The Supreme Court struck down a minimum wage law for ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
This is for an amendment proposal assignment. Teacher gave high regards.
Amendment ProposalFor my Constitutional Amendment proposal, I have chosen to make a notion to revamp the26th Amendment on vot ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Gay Marriages...My teacher asked us to write an essay on gay marriages, and if we thought they would be legalized all over the US. Because of the "full faith and credit act" states have...
s, but this poses a problem on a much larger scale because of the full faith and credit act and the constitutional issues.While many heterosexuals are against gay marriage because of religious beliefs ... disturb the system so that their point on civil rights is heard.I don't think there will ever be a constitutional amendment legalizing gay marriages because the nation just doesn't have the tax dolla ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality
BUSINESS LAW QUESTIONS
VI, the Constitution is the supreme law; a law in violation of the Constitution will be declared unconstitutional and won't be enforced.b) A federal statute conflicts with a state constitutional prov ... ral statute applies to all states.c) A state statute conflicts with the common law of that state.A. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. A state constitution is supreme within the state's borders.d) A state constituti ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Analysis of English Only Law Essay-Pro vs. Con
a game of "WHAT IF?" throughout the entire semester. For instance, WHAT would have happened IF the constitutional congress had not merged the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan? Or, WHAT would hap ... ferent perspectives on a certain "WHAT IF?" question. For instance, "WHAT would be the effects IF a constitutional amendment endorsed school prayer?" Moving on to the next question in our game, WHAT w ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
NAFTA
s. To begin with, NAFTA is more than simply a piece of US legislation or a constitutional amendment. It is an agreement between three nations (Canada, United States and Mexico ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges
Don't Amend- The Gay Marriage Amendment Debate
suit in Goodridge et al. v. The Department of Public Health, the "concerned right" is pushing for a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage. As society is progressively stepping forward in civil ... vely stepping forward in civil rights, why is our government trying to dictate who can obtain their constitutionally granted "pursuit of happiness"? Amendment supporters are ignoring a few things when ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality
Analysis--Pro Vs. Con
a game of "WHAT IF?" throughout the entire semester. For instance, WHAT would have happened IF the constitutional congress had not merged the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan? Or, WHAT would hap ... ferent perspectives on a certain "WHAT IF?" question. For instance, "WHAT would be the effects IF a constitutional amendment endorsed school prayer?" Moving on to the next question in our game, WHAT w ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
"Yes" to keeping the Constitutional Monarchy in Canada.
Canada is presently a constitutional monarchy, which is lead by the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Her official titl ... h, Defender of the Faith. However, she is simply referred to as "The Queen". Some people argue that constitutional monarchy has a negative effect on our country, and we should apply for constitutional ... rs disagree, stating that we have a good system, we should stick with it, and I agree with that.The constitutional monarchy is here to help Canada and the other countries under the Commonwealth as wel ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Gay Marriages
Amendment 2U.S. Constitutional Amendment ProposalThe Marriage Bill that didn't pass in the Senate with the intent to ... 2, a group of three Democrat and three Republicanmembers of the House of Representatives proposed a Constitutional Amendment. Theysought to ban homosexual unions via The Federal Marriage Amendment.The ... oster care and adoption provisions, medical-careauthority, pension, and death benefits.The proposed Constitutional Amendment, however, would restrict those rightsAmendment 5and benefits to traditional ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Affirmative Action
ng the people. This can be traced in history as it began with the approval of Propostion 209 as the constitutional amendment that prohibits policies of Affirmative Action which adheres to preferential ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
Is Abortion A Constitutional Right?
of life violates its right to equal protection under the law. Therefore, should a democracy pass a constitutional amendment, which is imposable by justices, that proclaims abortion to be a constituti ... s of equality] are to be represented"¦Consequently a court whose authority to declare laws unconstitutional was restricted to rights and interests integral to the democratic process would be fu ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Can Canada Survive?
---Movement in that direction achieved by consultation, administration and legislation rather than constitutional amendment, might keep Q in C (21) ---The second element of the emerging federal posit ... ional empires of yesterday have to e succeeded by multinational democratic states tomorrow. (30) ===Constitutional reform: the god that failed ---Q's attempt to leave c, on two occasions, was to be tr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Founding Fathers' Promote and Protect the Constit
stitution article. ?The Congress, whenever two-thirds of the house deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the sev ... tion of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as a part of this Con ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
GAY MARRIAGE
of the issue. Massachusetts' governor immediately denounced decisions and said he would work for a constitutional amendment to overturn it. But an openly gay U.S. congressman from the state said the ... road array of religious groups and conservative political activists has united behind the idea of a constitutional amendment against gay marriage. Opponents of gay marriage firmly believe that marriag ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality
Proposing a Law in Arizona
ging too frequently. (McClory, p.60) The states citizens or the Legislature can propose a bill or constitutional amendment in addition the delegates may hold a special constitutional convention to p ... . The first is called the initiative. Arizonians may use a petition to place on the ballot a law or constitutional amendment for the people to vote on. In order for a bill to pass under this measure i ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Women's Reproductive Rights and Marital Rights: A Comparison of Twenty Countries
her factors. For instance, in Ireland abortion and abortion counseling are illegal as a result of a constitutional amendment passed in 1983, whereas in Norway women have uninhibited access to abortion ... ctive, Fifth Edition. California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995.Haussman, M.A. "The Personal is Constitutional: Feminist Struggles for Equality Rights in the United States and Canada." 1992.In J. ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
The 26th Amendment
world by the Vietnam War. The Congress and the state officials felt escalating pressure to pass the Constitutional amendment because of the war, in which many young men who were unable to vote were en ... ning the expansion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Nixon stated, "Despite my misgivings about the constitutionality of this one provision, I have signed the bill. I have directed the Attorney Genera ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History