Generally, Article Five requires that a proposal to amend the Constitution garner a two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress, and then be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures.

In Lithuania certain proposals must be endorsed by a three-quarters majority ( among them, any proposal to amend article 148 of the Lithuanian Constitution, which states, " Lithuania is an independent and democratic republic ").

A proposal to amend the constitution and abolish the system of Odelsting and Lagting was introduced in 2004 and was passed by the Storting on 20 February 2007 ( 159 – 1 with nine absentees ).

A proposal to amend the Constitution is introduced into Dáil Éireann ( the lower house of parliament ) as a bill and if passed by the Dáil, and passed or deemed to have been passed by the Senate ( the upper house ), is put to the people.

From 2000 to 2005, the 300 assembly members were selected ad hoc on the basis of proportional representation by a special election within six months of proposal by the Legislative Yuan to amend the Constitution, impeach the president or vice president, or change national borders.

In referendums to amend the constitutions of Australia and Switzerland it is required that a proposal be endorsed not just by an overall majority of the electorate in the nation as a whole, but also by separate majorities in each of a majority of the states or cantons.

While U. S. Representative George Thatcher of Massachusetts responded with the desire to amend the Fugitive Slave Act, other representatives ' resistance to changing the law forced his proposal to fail.

In 2008 the “ Close the Enron Loophole Act ” was enacted into law to regulate more extensively “ energy trading facilities .” On August 11, 2009, the Treasury Department sent Congress draft legislation to implement its proposal to amend the CFMA and other laws to provide “ comprehensive regulation of all over-the counter derivatives .” This proposal was revised in the House and, in that revised form, passed by the House on December 11, 2009, as part of H. R.

), he lobbied and convinced the members of the European Parliament to amend a directive proposal on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions ( initially written by the European Commission ).

On 29 May 2007, Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Diane Finley announced her proposal to amend the Citizenship Act.

Old Louisville is one of the most liberal neighborhoods in Louisville, as evidenced by the General Election results in 2004, where it voted for John Kerry by a 60 % margin and against a proposal to amend the state constitution to define marriage as " between one man and one woman " by a 66 % margin ( the proposal passed 75 % to 25 % in Kentucky ).

A proposal to amend the constitution put to a referendum must not contain any other proposal.

Articles 27 and 47 of the Constitution of Ireland provides for a referendum on a proposal other than a proposal to amend the constitution ( referred to in law as an " ordinary referendum ").

In 2011 Murray became involved in controversy with the Government over a proposal to amend the Constitution to allow the remuneration of judges to be reduced in parallel to the remuneration of public servants in State employment.

* 7 March – A referendum on a proposal to amend the Consititution to remove the threat of suicide as a ground for legal abortion is narrowly defeated.

( A referendum proposal to amend the Constitution to clarify these rights and to make them good also against the States was defeated in 1988.

A proposal to amend the state constitution and trade land closer to the summit ridge to the ski area for holdings elsewhere was vigorously opposed by environmentalists and failed to pass the legislature in the early 1990s.

The Binding Triad is a proposal to amend the United Nations Charter to allow the United Nations General Assembly to pass binding resolutions with the approval of a supermajority of members.

The Port will now amend its master plan and resubmit its proposal for Coastal Commission approval-a process that can take several years.

The European Parliament can accept or reject the proposal but not amend it.

Democracy allows people to participate equally — either directly or through elected representatives — in the proposal, development, and creation of laws.

However, the proposal was not accepted, as there was no legal base for it and the then valid laws prohibited any restriction of pasture.

The Senate only can pass or reject laws in full ( Article 85 ), defended by the responsible minister or by members of the House of Representatives having taken the initiative to propose the law ; however, in practice it can send the proposal back asking for a novelle to be passed by the House of Representatives, in fact an amendment of law.

As a slight variation on the proposal for English votes on English laws, Sir Malcolm Rifkind proposed that an English Grand Committee, along the lines of the Scottish and Welsh Grand Committees ( made up of all the MPs from the relevant nation ) to be formed to debate on the effects of legislation on England.

Though Cincinnatus was initially able to prevent their enactment, Terentilius attempted to use the upheaval associated with the war effort to push through a series of reforms which were specifically to benefit the proletarii and peasantry, including a proposal to draw up a code of written laws applicable equally to patricians and plebeians — an early push for what would eventually become the Ten or Twelve Tables.

In 1794, during Muhlenberg's second tenure as Speaker, the House voted 42-41 against a proposal to translate some of the laws into German.

After much debate, a different proposal was abruptly proposed and adopted, essentially reviving previous Massachusetts tax laws.

The Agong at the time, Ahmad Shah of Pahang, agreed with the proposals in principle but baulked when he realised that the proposal would also deem Sultans to assent to laws passed by state assemblies.

In 1868, John Maisch, PCP professor ( 1866 – 1893 ) and dean ( 1879 – 1893 ), proposed the creation of a pharmaceutical board to be appointed by the governor of each state and established the term “ registered pharmacist .” He shared his proposal with each governor, and by 1878 nine states had adopted pharmacy laws which licensed pharmacists.

In The Anatomy of an Equivalent ( 1688 ) he treats with keen wit and power of analysis the proposal to grant a " perpetual edict " in favor of the Established Church in return for the repeal of the test and penal laws.

On 12 April, propelled by both genuine conviction and the spirit of independence, the Chamber of Deputies roundly rejected the government's proposal to change the inheritance laws.

This report, the proposal that he made ( 27 August 1795 ) to lessen the severity of the revolutionary laws, and the eulogies he received from several Paris sections suspected of Royalism, resulted in his being obliged to justify himself ( 15 October 1795 ).

The Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions ( Commission proposal COM ( 2002 ) 92 ), procedure number 2002 / 0047 ( COD ) was a proposal for a European Union ( EU ) directive aimed to harmonise national patent laws and practices concerning the granting of patents for computer-implemented inventions, provided they meet certain criteria.

On 20 February 2002, the European Commission initiated a proposal for a directive to codify and " harmonise " the different EU national patent laws and cement the practice of the European Patent Office of granting patents for computer-implemented inventions provided they meet certain criteria ( cf.

* the Sénat conservateur ( Conservative Senate ), the highest chamber, whose duty was to guard the constitution, and which upon the consul's proposal could enact special laws known as sénatus-consultes,

Additionally, the proposal was scrutinized by the U. S. Congress, which determined that the BCS was not in violation of any laws or constitutional amendments, although this has since been reconsidered and the BCS is currently under renewed federal anti-trust scrutiny from the Justice Department.

" The Government of Quebec has made public its proposal to negotiate a new agreement with the rest of Canada, based on the equality of nations ; this agreement would enable Quebec to acquire the exclusive power to make its laws, levy its taxes and establish relations abroad — in other words, sovereignty — and at the same time to maintain with Canada an economic association including a common currency ; any change in political status resulting from these negotiations will only be implemented with popular approval through another referendum ; on these terms, do you give the Government of Quebec the mandate to negotiate the proposed agreement between Quebec and Canada?

After much debate, a different proposal was abruptly proposed and adopted, essentially reviving previous Massachusetts tax laws.

The Varela Project relies on Article # 88 ( g ) of the Cuban Constitution Text of 1976, which allows citizens to propose laws if 10, 000 persons who are registered to vote support the proposal with their names, national identification numbers, addresses, and signatures.

" Under our proposal, the word marriage would no longer appear in any laws, and marriage licenses would no longer be offered or recognized by any level of government ," argues Sunstein.

Supporters of the proposal then turned their attention to state legislatures, where their efforts were met with far greater success: Eventually, all but 11 states ( Arkansas, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, and West Virginia ) passed laws that meet the general criteria for designation as " Blaine Amendments ," in that they ban the use of public funds to support sectarian private schools.