Examples of Constitutional Convention in a sentence
Brickfield, Problems Relating to a Federal Constitutional Convention, p.
Upon receiving a petition signed by not less than 25 percent of all qualified voters calling for a referendum on the question of holding a Constitutional Convention to consider the amendments proposed in the petition, the Speaker shall certify to the Nitijela that such petition has been received.
Upon the approval of a majority of the votes validly cast in a referendum held pursuant to paragraphs (6) or (8) of this Section, as duly certified by the Speaker, it shall be the duty of the Nitijela to provide by Act for the convening of a Constitutional Convention in accord with paragraph (2) of this Section as soon as practicable.
When Benjamin Franklin was asked, upon exiting the Constitutional Convention of 1787, “Well, Doctor, what have we got — a Republic or a Monarchy?,” he famously re- marked “A Republic, if you can keep it.”26The same can be said for the FTC: an “evolutionary process… subject to judicial review,”27 if we can keep it.
Savage, Corruption and Virtue at the Constitutional Convention, 56 J.
It shall be beyond the authority of a Constitutional Convention to consider or adopt amendments that are unrelated to or inconsistent with the proposals presented to it by the Nitijela or by referendum.
It shall be the duty of the Nitijela to make provision, at least once every ten years, for a report on the advisability of amending this Constitution, or of calling, or holding a referendum on the question of calling, a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to this Constitution, and to publish that report.
U.S Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Problems Relating to a Federal Constitutional Convention, by Cyril F.
In 1978, the Article XII of the State of Hawai‘i Constitutional Convention established the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (hereinafter “OHA”) to address the historical injustices and challenges arising out of those circumstances.
Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787 (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book.