The Maryland move excites reformers because it effectively sidesteps the need to amend the Constitution.
Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin senator, is trying to amend the constitution to require just that.
He brought them out again, in 1997 and 1999, against attempts to amend the constitution.
There's much talk that Ramos will extend his term through a popular initiative to amend the Constitution.
Whoever wins will have to amend the constitution that makes decisions in Ukraine so hard to reach.
If need be, I would seek to amend the Constitution to protect private property rights in America.
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They helped scotch manoeuvres to amend the constitution to allow Fidel Ramos a second term as president.
But what if we were to amend the Constitution so that each president gets only one six-year term?
And its coalition would be just a few senators short of the 60% needed to amend the constitution.
In 2002 Brazil's Congress voted to amend the constitution to exempt share trades from a widespread tax on transactions.
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It enabled the president to amend the constitution by the required two-thirds majority, legitimising his 1999 coup and subsequent orders.
For example, next week, the government will announce plans to amend the constitution to incorporate new clauses on human rights.
Unlike her predecessor, she will command a congressional coalition with the three-fifths majorities in both houses needed to amend the constitution.
Not only has it the authority to amend the constitution, but it will also elect the next president later this year.
In particular, she would need it to amend the constitution to ensure she need not retire when her presidential term is up.
The Supreme Court has given him the authority to amend the constitution.
Not long ago she tried to forge a deal with Mr Yanukovich to amend the constitution so that parliament would elect the president.
To keep his job, he would need either to persuade parliament to amend the constitution, or to elect him in the proper way.
But the president has not been able to translate the pledge into action: She lacks the two-thirds parliamentary majority to amend the constitution.
In July the constitutional Court dismissed a complaint that her party's attempt to amend the constitution amounted to plotting to overthrow the monarchy.
Both the Senate where at least four senators are vying for the presidency and the Supreme Court have recently killed attempts to amend the constitution.
There is broad resistance to efforts to make it easier to amend the constitution and to reduce the scope for national vetoes in future.
If our citizens wish to amend the constitution there is a straightforward legal way to do this, but we will not selectively enforce our laws.
Hashimoto wants to amend the constitution to directly elect the PM.
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He supports efforts to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage.
The occasion is a constitutional amendment on the ballot, one that, if approved, would empower the state legislature to amend the constitution to ban same-sex marriages.
This is partly because of a campaign to amend the constitution to allow President Yoweri Museveni to stand again - 20 years after he came to power.
Acknowledging the constitutional issues, she aims to have the laws passed by two-thirds super-majorities in both chambers, as is required when parliament wants to amend the constitution.
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The constitution expressly states in Article 239 that any president who seeks to amend the constitution and extend his term is automatically disqualified and is no longer president.
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The biggest and most-welcomed surprise was his decision to shelve plans to amend the Constitution, called "Concord" (Constitutional Correction for Development) by Estrada and "cha-cha" (charter change) by his opponents.
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