In July, 2010, by a vote of 373 to 323, the General Assembly voted to propose to the presbyteries for ratification a constitutional amendment to remove from the Book of Order section G-6. 0106. b. which included this explicit requirement for ordination: “ Among these standards is the requirement to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman ( W-4. 9001 ), or chastity in singleness .” This proposal required ratification by a majority of the 173 presbyteries within 12 months of the General Assembly ’ s adjournment.

After a successful signature gathering, the federal council may create a counterproposal to the proposed amendment and put it to vote on the same day as the original proposal.

Voters will decide in a national vote whether to accept the initiative amendment, the counter proposal put forward by the government if any, or both.

It would appear that the length of time elapsing between proposal and ratification is irrelevant to the validity of the amendment.

Representative John Quincy Adams had made a proposal in 1839, but there were no new proposals until December 14, 1863, when a bill to support an amendment to abolish slavery throughout the entire United States was introduced by Representative James Mitchell Ashley ( Republican, Ohio ).

As the number of proposals and the extent of their scope began to grow, the Senate Judiciary Committee presented the Senate with an amendment proposal combining the drafts of Ashley, Wilson and Henderson.

With a campaign for a state-led constitutional amendment gaining strength, and a fear that this could result in a " runaway convention ", the proposal to mandate direct elections for the Senate was finally introduced in the Congress.

You must submit your proposed policy or amendment to the APNIC Secretariat at least four weeks prior to the meeting at which the proposal will be considered.

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.

In the 2006 elections, it was also the most supportive county of proposal 2, a state constitutional amendment banning affirmative action programs.

The proposal for a right to initiative was criticized for dangerously lowering the threshold for considering a constitutional amendment.

Following a proposal from backbench MP David Wilshire, he accepted the amendment which would become Section 28 ( prohibiting local governments from the " promotion " of homosexuality ) and defended its inclusion.

After fierce debate in parliament this proposal was approved but subject to the amendment that Voeren would become part of the Dutch speaking province of Limburg.

On 30 December 1964, Makarios declared his proposal of Constitutional amendment which included 13 articles.

Although a constitutional amendment would be the simplest form for changing the rules, the difficulty of the task has led to a proposal to make States enter a National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

Upton supports a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, a proposal that failed to acquire the two-thirds support necessary to pass the House in the 112th Congress.

Liberal Party politician and Everton board member George Mahon fought the proposal and put forward his own amendment which was carried by the Everton board.

To circumvent these concerns, Lincoln made a novel proposal that the territory could be acquired by expanding an existing state's borders, effecting a purchase that would not require a constitutional amendment.

Attempts have been made from time to time in Congress to restrict birthright citizenship, either via statutory redefinition of the term jurisdiction, or by overriding both the Wong Kim Ark ruling and the Citizenship Clause itself through an amendment to the Constitution, but no such proposal has been enacted.

Proponents of the amendment may seek to deny the charge by saying that the original proposal brings together different steps, and while personally they oppose all the parts, some parts are even worse than others and legislators should have an opportunity to consider them separately.

In 1984, when a delegate of the Republican platform committee asked unanimous consent to change a platform amendment to read the Democrat Party instead of Democratic Party, Representative Jack Kemp objected, saying that would be " an insult to our Democratic friends " and the committee dropped the proposal.

Congress first placed a deadline on a proposed constitutional amendment in 1917 with its proposal of what is now the 18th Amendment.

According to Coleman, it is none other than the Congress itself — if and when the Congress should later be presented with valid ratifications from the required number of states — which has the discretion to arbitrate the question of whether too much time has elapsed between Congress ' initial proposal of that amendment and the most recent state ratification thereof assuming that, as a consequence of that most recent ratification, the legislatures of ( or conventions conducted within ) at least three-fourths of the states have ratified that amendment at one time or another.

( Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.

To the surprise of many, Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who had vehemently opposed this amendment, appeared to have finally accepted it, and so did most of his party.

It was only when the FCC returned an hour to the networks on Sundays ( for children's / family or news programming ), taken away from them four years earlier, in a 1975 amendment to the Access Rule that CBS finally found a viable permanent timeslot for 60 Minutes.

A successful amendment is finally promulgated by the Emperor, but the monarch cannot veto an amendment.

After defeating it twice, the legislature finally adopted the amendment and inspired Marshall to declare that the " free young state of Minnesota " is " now altogether free.

After an amendment has been approved by parliament, a general election must be held ; the new parliament must then approve the amendment again before it is finally submitted to a referendum.

And finally, upon the death of President Wilhelm Pieck on 7 September 1960, a constitutional amendment of 12 September 1960 replaced the office of President with the Council of State ( Staatsrat der DDR ); Walter Ulbricht became its first chairman.

The June 1993 version of the DoD awards manual finally incorporated the 1989 amendment with the addition of the exception that " the POW Medal shall be issued only to those taken prisoner by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy forces during periods of armed conflict.

Goulart finally took the oath as president on September 7, 1961, although his power was restricted by an amendment to the Constitution passed on September 2, that created a parliamentary system of Government.

* Child labor was finally prohibited through an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act ( 1949 ).

The roundarm style was promoted successively by John Willes, William Lillywhite and Jem Broadbridge until it was finally legalised, amid furious controversy, in 1835 with an amendment to the rule in 1845.

An amendment must first be approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas ( parliament ), then submitted to a referendum, and finally signed into law by the President.

Burns was the first woman to speak before the Congressional delegates in 1914 when the Anthony amendment finally made it out of committee and into the House.

Finally on August 1920, Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Anthony amendment, and Burns quest for federal suffrage was finally over.

After a long battle Congress finally exempted the Tellico Dam from the Endangered Species Act as an amendment in an unrelated bill.

The respective amendment was finally approved by Riigikogu on 13 April 2011 and entered into force on 22 July 2011 ;

In 1940, the courts membership was finally increased to its current size of seven members, and a 1926 constitutional amendment provided that the Chief Justice should be selected by the Justices of the Court and should serve for a term of two years.

On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment, and 2 weeks later on June 4, the Senate finally followed.

A less all encompassing constitutional amendment finally submitted by the Committee of Thirty-Three was passed by Congress, but this amendment simply provided protection for slavery where it currently existed – something that Lincoln and most members of both parties already believed was a state right protected by the existing Constitution.

Originally intended to grant self-government to the entire island of Ireland as a single jurisdiction under Dublin administration, the final version as enacted in 1914 included an amendment clause for six Ulster counties to remain under London administration for a proposed trial period of six years, yet to be finally agreed.