The amendment to the state constitution would prohibit the state from granting preferential treatment or discriminating against any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, skin color, ethnicity or national origin.
Since the usury cap was an amendment to the state's constitution, only a statewide referendum or federal legislation, which would override the state's constitution, can abolish it.
The court said the law did not violate the state constitution's guarantee of religious freedom or a ban on the use of state funds for religious institutions.
Opponents are also seeking to have the amendment nullified, arguing that it alters the state's constitution -- meaning the state Supreme Court's May ruling -- and therefore, according to state law, is a revision that requires a constitutional convention.
Having learned the lessons of such subsidy deals, the framers of the state constitution included what is known as the gift clause.
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In a well written, somewhat academic speech Correa lays out these policies including the reformulation of the state constitution and the creation of a Constituent assembly.
Back in the 1970s the people supporting the mini-bottles-only rule got it embedded in the state constitution, any amendment to which requires a two-thirds vote by both houses of the state legislature, as well as approval by a majority of South Carolina's voters in a referendum.
The US Constitution prohibits the State of California from favoring companies in California against competition from those outside.
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Among other things, the constitution increased state controls on private industry and land and allowed Mr Correa to run for re-election.
The court rejected arguments that the measure improperly amended the state constitution.
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The Ecuadorian constitution empowers the state as the guarantor of education, health care, food, social security, and water resources for its inhabitants.
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Simply, because under the Constitution, state governments have authority over water resources -- and they are loath to give it up to the feds because they earn billions from water charges.
Another piece of legislation introduced in the House would amend the state constitution to require future wildlife or natural resource-related initiatives to pass by a two-thirds margin, rather than by a simple majority.
Southerners who glossed the Constitution stressed state sovereignty.
And many Alabamians like the restrictions the constitution places on the state's power.
He simplified the state constitution and, by changing the way oil production was taxed, ensured a windfall for the state treasury in oil's boom years.
It's true that the Illinois Supreme Court is the final authority when it comes to interpreting the state constitution.
The proposition, which added an amendment to the state constitution, defined marriage as between one man and one woman.
In November 2010, seventy percent of the voters of Oklahoma approved an amendment to the state constitution that would have barred shariah from being used in Oklahoma's courts.
After the South Carolina voters approved an amendment to the state constitution allowing him to run for a second term in 1980, Riley won re-election with 70 percent of the vote.
Another problem: Many states are contractually obligated (under the state constitution in some cases) to exempt interest on their municipal bonds from state income tax.
Mr. Rebell said his intention is to persuade lawmakers in Albany to reevaluate whether the state is providing every student with the opportunity for the "sound basic education" that courts said is guaranteed by the state constitution.
In response, Barabba pointed out that Del Baccaro was essentially grasping at straws, noting that the guideline that Del Baccaro was accusing the redistricting commission of violating (geographical compactness) was, according to the state constitution, subservient to four other constitutional guidelines that, in the case that Del Baccaro was citing, took precedence.
But the judge took issue with the way the plan was enacted, saying it violated "home-rule" provisions of the state Constitution.
"This is simply going to be a case about the Maryland state constitution, " said Mark A. Graber, a law professor at the University of Maryland School of Law.
But the appeals court roundly rejected both notions as contrary to California's reporter's shield law and the state Constitution, effectively stating that it wasn't Apple's place to decide what constitutes "legitimate journalism, " and that Apple could have investigated the leak of trade secrets themselves without drawing the websites into the mix.
The New York State constitution bars public employers from slowing the rate at which workers build up their pensions over the course of their careers.
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The state constitution has an amendment carving out public employee pension benefits from diminishment.
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But California voters in November approved Proposition 8, which amended the state constitution to ban gay marriage.
In May, a similar amendment in North Carolina to ban gay marriage in the state constitution passed with 61% voter support.
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