HE’S ENCOURAGING THAT SPIRIT TO GET BEHIND AN ARTICLE FIVE CONVENTION OF STATES, A NEVER BEFORE USED CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY, HE SAYS, WOULD ALLOW STATE LEGISLATURES TO CHECK THE POWER OF THE ...
Alternatively, two-thirds of the states can call for a constitutional convention, which, in turn, can propose amendments to be ratified by three-fourths of the states. Republican calls for a ...
a citizen-led ballot initiative that enshrined the right to an abortion in the Arizona Constitution. A lawsuit is pending to officially nullify the state's 15-week abortion ban, which first took ...
Cruz pointed out the Arizona Constitution requires both the commission that screens applicants and the governor herself to “consider the diversity of the state’s population.’’ Cruz ...
That initiative places a right to terminate a pregnancy into the Arizona Constitution. But Planned Parenthood noted at the time that the initiative, by itself, did not void the 15-week limit.
The criminal justice system is also about the process – "due process" – that is guaranteed under the Constitution before the government can deprive any person of their liberty by jailing them.