CA constitution

... a constitution and its government to protect the minority from the ruling majority? To temper legal discrimination? And yet this is how CA's laws work. Don't misunderstand, I don't think courts should legislate, the people and the legislatures should legislate. I just feel that 50.5% is not good enough to change a constitution, you should need a clear majority. I'm sorry CA but that's messed up.

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Big Pharma wants me to take brand name drugs. Big Insurance wants me to take generics. Both suck.

... incentives. A grandfather clause would require HMOs to continue providing brand-name drugs to patients already benefiting from it. But none of these bills have gotten serious traction in state legislatures. Last year, the American Medical Association warned that it considered the bonuses kickbacks and said doctors who accept payment from an insurer for switching a patient from a brand name to ...

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Soundness Assurance - IT Body politic - Software Programming, Structure

... in terms of shaping policy at the state level: major ballot initiatives and referenda. The use of the initiative is in some places, especially in the blue states of the West Coast where Democrats firmly control the legislatures but self-declared initiative kingpins have well-entrenched operations, the right wing's last means of access to the levers of power. Similar posts: health ins

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Miss America 2001 Angela Baraquio Urges Americans to 'End the Reign' of Roe v. Wade at JustONEJudge.

... president and Senate, demonstrating the large numbers of citizens who are passionate about the issue of life. "This issue needs to return to the states, so citizens can lobby their state legislatures for laws that protect the dignity of all human life from the moment of conception through natural death," said Jason Jones, founder of Just ONE Judge. The JustONEJudge.com campaign asks ...

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the federalist papers, day 3, part 3

... branches of the same legislature, but as distinct and independent legislatures, in each of which an opposite interest prevailed: in one ...the plebian interest had an entire predominancy. And yet these two legislatures coexisted for ages, and the Roman republic attained to the ...that we have seen other descriptions of men in the local legislatures, I answer that it is admitted there are exceptions to ...

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the federalist papers, day 3, part 1

... reside anywhere else, than in the legislatures themselves; and it was superfluous, if... period of discussion arrived, the State legislatures, who will always be not only ... through the medium of the State legislatures which are select bodies of men,... sanctity of an oath. Thus the legislatures, courts, and magistrates, of the respective...of the people at large. The legislatures will have better means of ...

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Funny Facebook Group

...wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract. 11) Gay marriage should be decided by the people, not the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of minorities. 12) Civil Unions, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because a "separate but equal" ...

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'Personhood' Amendment On Colorado Ballot

... interest group, narrowly crafted, and it's the wrong response." The latest polls have the personhood amendment trailing by 15 percentage points, with 16 percent of the electorate undecided. National Conference of State Legislatures analyst Jennie Drage Bowser says even if it does fail, she thinks other states will still copy it. "When a ballot measure is tried as a new idea in one state, it's ...

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Time Magazine Article - The Gay Mafia

... for the first time in 12 years." Some Cabinet members also donated tens of thousands of dollars in certain Iowa and New Hampshire races in 2006, when Democrats regained control of both states' legislatures. Those states' Democratic majorities now ensure that, among other things, efforts to amend the Iowa and New Hampshire constitutions to ban same-sex marriage will fail. And yet the Cabinet is ...

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The Libertarian Ideal

... effectively. Eventually this will lead to a marriage of the two parties, but until then the Libertarian party will have tremendous power in turning the tide in Congress and State Legislatures. Fiscal conservatism vs. fiscal liberalism will become more important to the governing process than social conservatism vs. social liberalism. At this point the Libertarian ideal can be instituted in slow, ...

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