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...company’s blog on Thursday, Facebook CEO and founder Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07 explained that if more than 30 percent of Facebook’s 200 million active users voted on the proposals, all of Facebook’s future amendments would go through the same voting process. Users have been given the option to either maintain Facebook’s current terms of service or to amend the document by taking into consideration users’ complaints and criticisms. Voting has been in progress since April 16, and will continue...
...that reasoning gives even pro-euthanasia groups pause. "We think that his actions are irresponsible and potentially dangerous," says James Harris, head of campaigns and communications at Dignity in Dying, which is working to amend the U.K.'s law on euthanasia. "Does he know if these people have talked to their doctors? Are they competent to make this decision? It completely baffles...
...Dowling Report, which was released March 2, UC members debated alternatives to its committee structure, the size of the Council, and the timing of elections. The Dowling Report, a review charged with the task of considering student governance on campus, raised several issues that would require the UC to amend its constitution in order for the changes to be implemented. The report recommended that the UC’s Finance Committee have a rotating membership, but that idea received some resistance from Council members. “I think that everyone’s in agreement about FiCom in that...
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's repeated calls to amend the constitution to strengthen the powers of the central government in Baghdad at the expense of Iraq's 18 provinces - including the semiautonomous three-province Kurdish region in the north - have faced fierce pushback from his Kurdish allies, some of whom have called him "the new Saddam." That schism is bound to widen in the coming months, when the U.N. issues its findings over the disputed oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, which Kurds claim as their "Jerusalem" but which Arabs are loath to let go of. (See a TIME...
...Still, after 233 years of constitutional development, a supermajority is only required in five cases: to override a presidential veto, to amend the constitution, to pass treaties with foreign nations, to convict impeached public officials, and to expel members of the House or Senate. Nowhere does the Constitution say you need 60 votes just to debate contentious legislation...