Twenty-nine states have constitutional provisions banning same-sex marriage, the National Conference of State Legislatures says.
And some of them have constitutional provisions that insist that such changes be put to a public referendum.
Late Tuesday April 4, the cabinet resigned as a group, in accordance with constitutional provisions concerning an incapacitated premier.
Twenty-nine states have constitutional provisions banning same-sex marriage, the NCSL says.
The United States Supreme Court has cited unratified treaties (and even an African treaty), and various contemporary foreign law sources, as guidance for interpreting United States constitutional provisions.
There is, however, a Constitutional right not to be deprived of the same privileges and immunities as everyone else in the country under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and under state Constitutional provisions.
The changes, adopted by the Hungarian parliament last month, include provisions previously deemed unconstitutional by the country's Constitutional Court.
But such talk failed even to reassure Arizona's own legislators, who moved last Friday--less than two weeks after the law was passed--to amend the law's more draconian provisions after civil rights groups threatened to sue on constitutional grounds.
Some of the amendments include provisions that have previously been deemed unconstitutional by the country's Constitutional Court.
In its ruling Thursday, the nation's highest court could rule the whole law constitutional or unconstitutional, or strike down certain portions of the law while letting other provisions stand.
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But Constitutional Reform Minister Mark Harper said the amendment would "effectively drive a coach and horses" through the entire provisions of the bill.
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