Senate Constitutional Amendment5 (SCA5) was introduced by California State Senator Edward Hernandez to the California State Senate on December3,2012.[1] This initiative would ask voters to consider eliminating California Proposition 209's ban on the use of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in recruitment, admissions, and retention programs at California's public universities and colleges. SCA5 was passed in the California Senate on January30,2014 [2] but was subsequently withdrawn by Hernandez due to strong opposition, mainly from Asian Americans.[3]
SenateConstitutionalAmendment5 (SCA 5) was introduced by California State Senator Edward Hernandez to the California State Senate on December 3, 2012...
A constitutionalamendment is a modification of the constitution of a polity, organization or other type of entity. Amendments are often interwoven into...
An amendment may be proposed and sent to the states for ratification by either: The U.S. Congress, whenever a two-thirds majority in both the Senate and...
Constitution. Collectively, members of the House and Senate typically propose around 200 amendments during each two-year term of Congress. Most, however...
for a constitutionalamendment regarding Senate elections started in the early 19th century, with Henry R. Storrs in 1826 proposing an amendment to provide...
Other Commonwealth countries had taken over the authority for constitutionalamendment after the Statute of Westminster 1931, but at the time, Canada...
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states from the federal constitutionalamendment process and from abolition or interference by Congress. Although the Corwin Amendment does not explicitly...
Senate by the same super-majority and has often not come to a vote in the Senate despite its introduction several times. While the proposed amendment...
Florida Amendment 4 is a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution that will be subject to a referendum on November 5, 2024. The amendment would establish...
the Constitution, amendments can be proposed by one of three methods: a People's Initiative, a Constituent Assembly or a Constitutional Convention. A fourth...
vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; or by a convention to propose amendments called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of...
Democratic–Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, set the stage for a constitutionalamendment to alter this flawed system. In March 1801, weeks...
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...
advocacy. In 2014, Chinese for Affirmative Action supported the SenateConstitutionalAmendment5, an initiative would ask voters to consider eliminating California...
involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January...
article 89 and 42 state that "the plenary discussion of the draft constitutionalamendment ... carries, on first reading to the first meeting, on the text...
adopted by the Senate on June 2, 1924, with a vote of 61 yeas, 23 nays and 12 not voting. And with that, the proposed constitutionalamendment was submitted...
1970, NOW picketed the United States Senate, a subcommittee of which was holding hearings on a constitutionalamendment to lower the voting age to 18. NOW...
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required for passage in that body. The Senate has only voted on cloture motions with regard to the proposed amendment, the last of which was on June 7, 2006...
States Constitution considered by the United States Senate in the 1950s. None of these amendments ever passed Congress. Each of them would require explicit...
legislatively referred state constitutionalamendment was originally introduced as California Assembly ConstitutionalAmendment No. 5 (ACA 5) by Democratic Assembly...
The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791, along...