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...similar amendment to the state constitution??—which would have limited marriage rights to heterosexual couples—was defeated last June in the Massachusetts legislature, falling five votes short of the 50 required to have the amendment put to a public vote in November...
...case you didn’t notice on Facebook, September 17th was the Constitution??€™s 220th birthday. Two days later, Senate Republicans narrowly blocked a vote on the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act, thoughtfully giving history teachers everywhere the chance to offer a more modern, nuanced definition of the Bill of Rights: a list of the liberties the government can never violate, unless, of course, Congress says that...
...month, representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 tried to turn back the clock. He proposed a constitutional amendment that would restore the two-thirds requirement for bylaws changes.The council voted 31-0-4 for Greenfield’s legislation, and Haddock ruled that it had passed.Yet the constitution??€”which takes precedence over the bylaws—can only be amended if two-thirds of all UC members cast ballots, And since there are 51 members of the council, Greenfield’s legislation “failed to achieve the necessary threshold for passage...
...arrests, though, HUPD officers opted to take the alternative route: knock on doors and obtain consent from residents.DOCTRINE OF COLLUSIONIn recent months, the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court has grappled with the question of whether HUPD qualifies as a branch of the University or as a state-sanctioned police force.The Constitution??€™s fourth amendment search-and-seizure clause protects individuals from state actors—and not private citizens—attempting to enter their residences, says HLS Dane Professor of Law Lloyd L. Weinreb.“If the campus police officer is regarded as a private person...
...orientation—as a condition for gaining access to the schools’ career placement offices. The military has refused to sign such pledges because it prohibits openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving.Roberts wrote that Congress’ enumerated powers—those expressly delineated in the Constitution??€”give it the right to force universities to open their doors to military recruiters even if the universities don’t take federal funding. Among those enumerated powers listed in the Constitution, and cited by the court, are the powers “to raise and support...