Word: amendment
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Wallace calculates nonetheless that he needs the statehouse as a power base from which to launch a third-party presidential bid in 1968. After he lost a marathon legislative battle to amend the constitution in his favor last month, most people concluded that he would go after John Sparkman's U.S. Senate seat next year instead. This is still a possibility, though Wallace has let associates know that he prefers to "continue the fight from here...
...most refreshing dialogue last week came on the last of four days of debate, when a group of disgruntled Eastern Senators introduced amend ments that would limit the amount of federal money any one farmer could collect. Maryland Democrat Daniel Brewster suggested the ceiling should be $10,000 a year, argued that Gov ernment support money "is actually encouraging big farms to grow more wheat, which is sold to the taxpayers at a profit." His proposal was beaten. Virginia Democrat Willis Robertson offered a proposal to raise the ceiling to $25,000 a year. That was beaten. Delaware Republican John...
...substantial risk of grave damage to the mother's physical or mental health, or of the child's being born with a grave physical or mental defect, or when the pregnancy results from rape or incest. This would legalize abortions in the German-measles cases. Bills to amend the law along these lines were introduced, but failed, in New York and California...
States' Rights. In 1962 the General Assembly of the States, an unofficial organization comprised mostly of state legislators, proposed three amendments by the national-convention method. One dealt with state legislative apportionment; the other two would give two-thirds of the states the right to amend the Constitution without recourse to Congress or a national convention, and establish a court of state judges to review certain types of Supreme Court decisions. In response, 23 state legislatures have asked for a national constitutional convention to consider at least the apportionment issue...
There is some uncertainty as to just what would happen if 34 states lodged formal petitions with Congress to hold a national constitution convention, because there has never been one and the Constitution is vague about details. But there is no doubt that the urge to amend is running strong...