The Massachusetts legislature voted against a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, which is legal in the state because of a court ruling.
It prohibits the use of any foreign law in the state's courts that would interfere with U.S. constitutional rights or state public policy.
But other states have passed laws or state constitutional amendments specifically banning such marriages.
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Mr Bamberger was instrumental in the passing in 1995 of a new state constitutional amendment, Proposition 11.
Colorado voters rejected a "parents' rights" state constitutional amendment and an attempt to have nonprofits pay property taxes.
But other states have passed laws or state constitutional amendments banning such marriages.
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However, that was a vote for legislation, not a state constitutional amendment.
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Brian Kelsey, a Tennessee senator, recently introduced a state constitutional amendment to permanently ban any right to tax personal income into the future.
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Six states have passed legislation, and two states have passed state constitutional amendments, asserting that the federal government cannot tell their citizens they must have health insurance.
What is more, it does not preclude the application of any foreign law, including Shariah - except insofar as it violates constitutional rights or state public policy.
It looked as if Hawaii's high court would rule in favor of same-sex marriages in late 1998, but voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment banning such marriages.
Moreover, in many ballot-friendly states, voters can offer up new constitutional amendments or state initiative petitions so that the voices of small businesses can be heard with future changes.
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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.
Gorton also details the overturning of an 1846 New York State constitutional amendment requiring that a bank be declared insolvent if it failed, under any pretext whatsoever, to redeem one of its own banknotes.
Officials cited the unexpectedly high number of absentee ballots as well as the length of the ballots - which included 11 proposed state constitutional amendments - as the reason for the delays in both voting and counting votes.
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Rather than seeking a ban on foreign or international law, ALAC seeks to preserve the constitutional rights and state public policy protections of American citizens and legal residents, in cases involving foreign laws in the particular dispute being adjudicated.
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On Monday, September 12, 2011, the 10th Circuit Court held a hearing on the constitutionality challenge to the Oklahoma state constitutional amendment, passed overwhelmingly in November of 2010, to prevent courts in Oklahoma from using international law or shariah law in their decisions.
If a case arises in which a foreign law or foreign legal doctrine is involved in a dispute in a state court, ALAC prevents the use of that foreign law or foreign legal doctrine if any of the parties' constitutional rights or state public policy would be violated in the process.
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At least those polled clearly understand that establishing an official religion for their state would require a constitutional amendment as only 11 percent believe the Constitution currently allows a state to establish an official religion while 58 percent do not believe it to be constitutional.
Now, with respect to the abortion issue, I actually think -- I mean, there are laws both federal, state and constitutional that are in place.
Botros was a rebel, though within limits: he thought the collapsing Ottoman empire could be saved as a constitutional monarchy, a state composed of many nations.
And Felix Roque, a constitutional lawyer, told state-run VTV this week that Chavez could be sworn in before the Supreme Court justices inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Cuba if necessary.
Still, he said, budget pressures don't relieve New York of what courts have said is ultimately the state's constitutional responsibility.
Last week a federal judge struck down Cleveland's voucher program, ruling that it violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
It is hard to think of an issue more clearly reserved to state law under constitutional tradition than the definition of marriage.
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It neither sets up a new constitutional order nor a supranational state.
Nobody has been able to state clearly the constitutional rule that would forbid Mr Fujimori being a candidate for a third term.
Critics said it goes against the constitutional separation of church and state.
Critics claim that the bill would nevertheless violate the constitutional separation of church and state by allowing public money to be spent on what are essentially religious services.
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