If we, the lawyers of Uganda, are to practice the law well, then part of our duty will be to take a keen interest in how the laws we are expected to argue, for the benefit of the public, are made.
Here's a simple example. If you walk into an elementary ... If you're a strict textualist still on the fence, look at the Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights ...
The Republican governor threw the full weight of his administration behind blocking the measure, known as Amendment 4. A clear majority of voters backed the effort, but it fell just short of the ...
However, 60% of Florida voters needed to approve the amendment for it to pass, a threshold much higher than a simple majority. Only 57% of voters approved the amendment. “The majority of ...
Why wasn't that good enough? Most states require a simple majority vote to pass ballot measures. So did Florida, until a 2006 constitutional amendment passed, changing the threshold for voter ...
Amendment 80 remained at about 7 percentage points below the 55% approval rate needed for passage when the Associated Press officially called the race Thursday morning. Kevin Vick, president of ...
ST. LOUIS — When Missouri on Tuesday became the first state to overturn a near-total abortion ban by the vote of the people, Desiree White cried happy tears. Twenty-five years earlier, she and her ...