I Guess I Don't Understand Constitutional Law...
Posted by: tony on 11/10/2008 05:48 PM
Updated by: tony on 11/10/2008 05:48 PM
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Expires: 12/11/2008 12:00 AM
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...as practiced in California.
SACRAMENTO - As protesters took to the streets for a fifth day, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday expressed hope that the California Supreme Court would overturn Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage.
Maybe I'm just plain stupid, but wasn't Proposition 8 a Constituional amendment? So they passed a law defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman. The California Supreme Court overturned it on Constituional grounds, so the people enacted a ballot initiative to amend the state Constitution and it passed.
How can the court override a Constitutional amendment? How is the Constitution "unconstitutional"?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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