• Tiffany & Company argued that the proposed rules "would violate the First Amendment," laying the groundwork for business groups to mount a constitutional challenge. (blogspot.com)
  • Another big deal this week was a rally in Augusta, Maine, organized by our friends at Maine Citizens For Clean Elections, in support of a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • AUGUSTA, Maine - Republican state Sen. Edward Youngblood of Brewer and Democratic state Sen. Geoff Gratwick of Bangor joined forces Tuesday to endorse a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling that equates campaign donations to free speech protected by the First Amendment. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • A constitutional amendment would require ratification by voters in three-quarters (38) of the 50 states. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • A former member of the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices, which oversees public campaign financing, Youngblood supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and has submitted legislation to strengthen Maine's Clean Election Act. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • Nationally, Democrats generally wish to amend constitutions and Republicans to preserve them," The Economist proclaimed last month, on the same day that California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, proposed a federal constitutional amendment that would regulate gun ownership. (hnn.us)
  • It's a constitutional Catch-22: To repair Senate malapportionment, for instance, you'd have to get a constitutional amendment through that malapportioned Senate. (hnn.us)
  • While other states have enacted "right to life" and "personhood" language, none have gone as far as Alabama's constitutional amendment. (politico.com)
  • At least two states have already contacted the group Americans United for Life indicating interest in similar amendment language to clarify there isn't a constitutional right to an abortion in their state, similar to what West Virginia and Alabama did, according to Steven Aden, Americans United for Life chief legal officer and general counsel. (politico.com)
  • Johnston is leading a signature drive to get a constitutional amendment to assign personhood status to fertilized eggs on the 2018 ballot in Ohio. (businessinsider.com)
  • The congressman from Wisconsin co-sponsored a federal bill granting recognition of fertilized eggs , the federal equivalent to a constitutional amendment Coloradans already have rejected twice by overwhelming margins and are expected to defeat again should the measure qualify. (coloradopols.com)
  • It would take a change to the state court or a state constitutional amendment to protect the lives of mothers and unborn children in Iowa," Vander Plaats said. (caffeinatedthoughts.com)
  • He suggested that the legislature pass a simple constitutional amendment to put before Iowans at the ballot box. (caffeinatedthoughts.com)
  • If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment. (wnd.com)
  • The personhood amendment says there is a right to exist," he said. (wnd.com)
  • A sizeable majority in at least 34 states (enough to enact a Constitutional Amendment) believes that life begins at conception or sometime in the first six weeks (the time when virtually no elective abortions are performed). (forerunner.com)
  • Even if a state-by-state Personhood Amendment fails to overturn Roe , it could result in returning the states to a pre-_Doe_ scenario which might eliminate the 95 to 98 percent of abortions, which are provided on demand for any reason. (forerunner.com)
  • So Justice Alito focuses on the 19th century and reasons that abortion had been a crime throughout much of the history of the common law and was certainly a crime in most states at the time the relevant constitutional provision, the 14th Amendment was written. (wsiu.org)
  • Show More respectively, activist groups have been lobbying for a constitutional amendment to eliminate corporate constitutional personhood. (virginialawreview.org)
  • February 8, 2011- As Vermont becomes the first state to consider a Constitutional amendment that would put an end to 'corporate personhood', it is perhaps worthwhile to examine the historical context in which the concept arose and the forceful challenges to its validity that have been mustered by a minority of Supreme Court Justices. (protectourelections.org)
  • Earlier in the campaign, Buck indicated he favored a state constitutional amendment that would have granted personhood to people "from the beginning of biological development. (politifact.com)
  • In the 46-page document, the petitioners request that the Court recognize the "personhood" of unborn babies under the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, which ensures that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. (lifesitenews.com)
  • However, they request that the Court "identify the guarantees upon which Petitioners - and any unborn plaintiff regardless of gestational age - can rely for constitutional protection under the Fourteenth Amendment, and whether unborn human beings will categorically be denied access to the courts to challenge an abortion law. (lifesitenews.com)
  • In the 1990s, Republicans proposed anti-flag-burning amendments, fetal-personhood amendments and defense-of-marriage amendments. (hnn.us)
  • Statehouses, too, have been roadblocks: Fetal personhood legislation introduced in at least nine states this year failed to advance, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research group. (businessinsider.com)
  • PHOENIX ( LifeSiteNews ) - A U.S. District Court Judge on Monday placed an injunction on an Arizona fetal personhood law that holds that life begins at the moment of conception. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Rayes let the fetal personhood law stand in September last year after abortion providers filed a lawsuit in an effort to block the law. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The push to recognize fetal personhood has the potential to produce a nationwide abortion ban if the Court affirms that the unborn are persons with guaranteed rights. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Brad Blog: 'Move to Amend' but is 'Corporate Personhood' Valid Even Under Existing Constitution? (protectourelections.org)
  • This timeline is a great education tool to explain how corporations have used the legal system to gain constitutional "personhood rights" through court decisions and how people have organized to gain constitutional rights through amendments (with a few exceptions). (movetoamend.org)
  • Attempts in recent years to pass personhood amendments in Colorado, Mississippi and North Dakota have crashed and burned. (politico.com)
  • WND reported earlier that the movement already has reached into 32 states, where citizens are working now to find sponsors for statutes or constitutional amendments. (wnd.com)
  • The only RIGHT way to continue to make a "more perfect union" is by adding or repealing constitutional amendments. (market-ticker.org)
  • And lawmakers plan to soon introduce personhood bills in Wisconsin, Alabama, South Carolina, and Mississippi. (businessinsider.com)
  • According to WND columnist Jill Stanek, pro-life legislators in Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas have also signaled their intent to introduce personhood statutes. (wnd.com)
  • This Article reveals that central to the argument in favor of corporate constitutional personhood was a direct analogy between corporate shareholders and racial minorities. (virginialawreview.org)
  • Even the originalist justices, however, recognize that there are some unenumerated rights which, though not spelled out in the Constitution, should be given constitutional protection. (commondreams.org)
  • Alabama became the first state in the nation to enact what opponents call a "personhood clause" in its constitution, recognizing "the rights of unborn children, including the right to life. (politico.com)
  • And the idea central to those decisions was that there are constitutional rights beyond those spelled out in the text of the Constitution. (wsiu.org)
  • It should be noted that the said judgment drew from the Constitution to make the point that Section 377 was antithetical to the constitutional values of inclusiveness and constitutional morality. (ipetitions.com)
  • As it stands, Section 377 IPC denies a gay person a right to full personhood which is implicit in notion of life under Article 21 of the Constitution. (ipetitions.com)
  • Dean Post began the conference discussing how the constitution is both enduring and changing, praising all of the famous Yale scholars who have contributed to the modern constitutional jurisprudence. (joshblackman.com)
  • LifeSiteNews ) - Catholic pro-life advocates formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court this month to recognize the personhood of unborn babies under the U.S. Constitution. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Capacities or attributes common to definitions of personhood can include human nature, agency, self-awareness, a notion of the past and future, and the possession of rights and duties, among others. (wikipedia.org)
  • It swept away any notion of Personhood overriding the right to choose. (forerunner.com)
  • The fanciful notion that a corporation is a "person" and is thus imbued with fundamental constitutional rights stems from-get this-a mistake. (hightowerlowdown.org)
  • Abortion is the mass murder of the pre-born and can be abolished recognizing constitutional personhood at conception. (protestchildkilling.com)
  • We are demanding the SCOTUS recognize personhood from conception NOW! (protestchildkilling.com)
  • Fr Stephen sees abortion as the mass murder of the pre-born and believes that we can only abolish abortion by recognizing constitutional personhood at conception. (protestchildkilling.com)
  • If passed, it would have made Mississippi the first state to grant constitutional rights to embryo from the moment of conception. (democracynow.org)
  • It makes a broad human rights declaration that recognizes the personhood of all human beings and the duty of the local jurisdiction to provide equal protection, from conception to natural death. (personhood.org)
  • Personhood activists, who generally oppose abortion even in the case of rape and incest, have several policy changes in mind as the new administration takes office. (businessinsider.com)
  • In the meantime, personhood activists are pushing ahead with aggressive moves in a number of states. (businessinsider.com)
  • Other states are attempting to pass legislation that would grant embryos, fetuses and fertilized eggs personhood rights and in some cases constitutional rights. (npr.org)
  • He said NARAL described Personhood USA as: "The group behind the anti-choice 'personhood' measures, Personhood USA, exists solely to establish legal rights for fertilized eggs and trigger legal battles over abortion that could go all the way to the Supreme Court. (wnd.com)
  • Exposing the role of race in the history of the constitutional law of corporate personhood for the first time, this Article argues that corporations were instrumental in laying the foundation of the Equal Protection Clause that underlies civil rights jurisprudence today. (virginialawreview.org)
  • Ahmad seeks to equate personhood and citizens so that aliens (non-citizens) still get citizenship rights, which he argues are more substantial than personhood rights. (joshblackman.com)
  • He argues the left's move from citizenship to personhood is wrong. (joshblackman.com)
  • These so-called "personhood initiatives" declare that a fertilized egg is a "person" who enjoys "inalienable rights, equality of justice, and due process of the law. (feminist.org)
  • So, instead of what we're talking about now, which is a federal acknowledgement or reaffirming of Roe v. Wade , the third stage of overruling Roe v. Wade after acknowledging personhood would be a federal ban on on abortions across all 50 states, which is the opposite of what we have now. (newsweek.com)
  • At the annual March for Life Jan. 22, pro-life groups will use the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision to raise the profile of "personhood. (wnd.com)
  • Likewise, we recall the opinion of leading scholars, who have rejected Roe v. Wade as 'bad constitutional law. (christianheadlines.com)
  • The filing specifically challenges Rhode Island's 2019 codification of Roe v. Wade and attendant rollback of an 1861 law affirming that unborn babies meet the legal definition of "personhood. (lifesitenews.com)
  • According to the petition, Rhode Island's 2019 Reproductive Privacy Act (RPA), which codified the "right to abortion" as defined in Roe v. Wade (1973), had "stripped Petitioners, Baby Mary Doe and Baby Roe, of their 'personhood'" by repealing "Rhode Island General Laws § 11-3-4. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Judge Douglas L. Rayes ruled Monday that S.B. 1457 was too vague in its personhood provision, holding that the rights of abortion providers in Arizona were violated as they would not be able to know how to act in accord with the law. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Constitutional court upheld penal code provision which decriminalized abortions within the first three months of pregnancy. (utoronto.ca)
  • research use of embryos and stem cells upheld as constitutional. (utoronto.ca)
  • Personhood rights for embryos? (npr.org)
  • The Supreme Court's decision to reverse 50 years of constitutional protection for the right to get an abortion is more than 200 pages long . (commondreams.org)
  • In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez made the right to education a constitutional orphan. (columbialawreview.org)
  • There are just so many ways that personhood principles can be brought to bear on public policy," said Dr. Patrick Johnston, a family doctor and pediatrician who's also director of Personhood Ohio, an affiliate of the national advocacy group Personhood Alliance. (businessinsider.com)
  • Defining personhood is a controversial topic in philosophy and law and is closely tied with legal and political concepts of citizenship, equality, and liberty. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Court has upheld a constitutional right of access to public schools on just one occasion. (columbialawreview.org)
  • Safe access zones outside abortion providers was upheld as constitutional. (utoronto.ca)
  • In other words, ignore the constitutional/statutory definition of citizen. (joshblackman.com)
  • We have punished people while bowing to corporations-whom the law has granted constitutional rights of personhood. (prisonradio.org)
  • Show More Granting corporations constitutional rights, they argue, gives powerful mega-corporations even greater means to avoid regulation and manipulate elections, thus threatening "the democratic promise of America. (virginialawreview.org)
  • Also, how can you jail a corporation - even one granted personhood under the ignoble Citizens United decision of the US Supreme Court? (prisonradio.org)
  • Personhood continues to be a topic of international debate and has been questioned critically during the abolition of human and nonhuman slavery, in debates about abortion and in fetal rights and/or reproductive rights, in animal rights activism, in theology and ontology, in ethical theory, and in debates about corporate personhood, and the beginning of human personhood. (wikipedia.org)
  • granting non-human entities personhood, which has also been referred to a "personhood movement", can bridge Western and Indigenous legal systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • The push to confer full "personhood" status on every fertilized human egg has been rejected by voters and lawmakers in state after state, including deep-red Mississippi. (businessinsider.com)
  • We strongly disagree with the Court's judgment that regulation of abortion impinges upon fundamental state Constitutional rights and believe the recent decision finds no precedent in Iowa's history or legal traditions," Tom Chapman, executive director of the Iowa Catholic Conference , told Caffeinated Thoughts. (caffeinatedthoughts.com)
  • The Los Angeles Times reported Sept. 28 that while personhood measures failed in Montana and North Dakota legislatures earlier this year, "the close votes alarmed supporters of legal abortion. (wnd.com)
  • And second, she underestimates the thinness of cosmopolitanism and the crucial humanizing role played by identity politics in a deracinating world of contracts, markets, and legal personhood. (bostonreview.net)
  • The Personhood Alliance's strategic, three-step approach, which begins with a legally benign resolution, promotes long-lasting growth of the Safe Cities and Counties movement because it protects communities from the legal challenges that burden and often derail ordinance-first and ordinance-only approaches . (personhood.org)
  • In West Virginia and Alabama, the new constitutional language will make it easier for state lawmakers to ban or at least restrict abortion. (politico.com)
  • Charles Taylor, "The Concept of a Person" Others, such as philosopher Francis J. Beckwith, argue that personhood is not linked to function at all, but rather that it is the underlying personal unity of the individual: What is crucial morally is the being of a person, not his or her functioning. (wikipedia.org)
  • The restriction in Texas is temporary in that it is enforced by vigilantes because they knew that the state officials cannot enforce that ban simply because, on the books, there was a constitutional right for an abortion. (newsweek.com)
  • But the other evolved or implicit rights that have been recognized by the court over time--abortion and gay marriage , among others--are simply not constitutional rights in the view of the new majority. (commondreams.org)
  • Chances are that if you like the current court, you like this method of constitutional change and if you don't like the current court, you don't like this method. (hnn.us)
  • Corte Suprema Justicia de la Nación [National Supreme Court] March 5, 2002, Portal de Belén v. Ministerio de Salud y Acción Social de la Nación s/amparo en anticoncepción de emergencia, No. P.709.XXXVI, Spanish decision online . (utoronto.ca)
  • Sala "B" de la Cámara en lo Criminal de la Provincia de Río Negro [Criminal Court of Appeal of the Province of Río Negro] May 2009, F.N.M ., Spanish decision . (utoronto.ca)
  • Verfassungsgerichtshof[Constitutional Court] October 11, 1974, Erklaerungen des Verfassungsgerichtshofs 221 [Not online. (utoronto.ca)
  • Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional [Plurinational Constitutional Court of Bolivia, Sentencia 0206/2014, February 5, 2014. (utoronto.ca)
  • While parting with the case, we would like to make it clear that this Court has merely pronounced on the correctness of the view taken by the Delhi High Court on the constitutionality of Section 377 IPC and found that the said section does not suffer from any constitutional infirmity. (ipetitions.com)
  • The concept of personhood is difficult to define in a way that is universally accepted, due to its historical and cultural variability and the controversies surrounding its use in some contexts. (wikipedia.org)
  • He cited as an accomplishment Personhood USA's nomination by one of the nation's leading abortion industry advocates to its 2009 "Hall of Shame," for those who pose the greatest threat to abortion. (wnd.com)
  • At least four other states have similar personhood laws, including Missouri, Kansas, Georgia, and Alabama. (lifesitenews.com)
  • A draft of Justice Alito's majority opinion that was leaked early last month would end the federally guaranteed constitutional right to abortion and allow states to write their own abortion laws. (wsiu.org)
  • Constitutional, too, are complex questions about hierarchies between the regulatory agency of humans on the one hand (through domestic, regional, and international laws, markets and technologies), and the agency of nature (through self-regulatory cycles and processes) on the other. (lu.se)
  • And he, Pence, and Ryan could use their high-profile positions to raise awareness of the personhood movement. (businessinsider.com)
  • The Personhood Alliance's Safe Cities and Counties initiative is a movement inspired by self-government and empowered by faith in God-a faith that recognizes there are inalienable rights, granted by God, that no government can take away. (personhood.org)
  • Personhood is the status of being a person. (wikipedia.org)
  • He declined to rule " on whether a law defining 'person' to include the unborn for all purposes and without exception would be constitutional. (lifesitenews.com)
  • A bill declaring a fertilized egg to be a "person" with constitutional rights has passed the Oklahoma Senate. (msmagazine.com)
  • If a corporation is a person, why should it have all the benefits of personhood and none of the consequences? (market-ticker.org)
  • But he also noted supporters are setting a goal of having more than 35 states either with referenda or legislative proposals for the concept of "personhood. (wnd.com)
  • Anthropologist Beth Conklin has shown how personhood is tied to social relations among the Wari' people of Rondônia, Brazil. (wikipedia.org)
  • It would also be naïve to imagine that the process of establishing America's constitutional order was somehow immune from the impact of specific agendas. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
  • Jan led the effort to pass the first ever resolution to end corporate personhood in her town of Point Arena, CA in 2000. (movetoamend.org)
  • After several marches and rallies in 2022, we continue with the efforts to abolish abortion through constitutional personhood through these rallies and marches. (protestchildkilling.com)
  • The group, a grassroots Christian coalition, was founded to establish personhood efforts across the nation. (wnd.com)
  • Because she misjudges these two elements, she is unduly alarmed about what has been a remarkably successful and undogmatic constitutional exercise in American exceptionalism and unduly frightened of efforts to refocus American patriotism and community in an era of individualism and privatizing markets. (bostonreview.net)
  • Drawing attention to these ideas, I'd suggest, should be at the core of what some have called "constitutional conservatism"-a project with great potential for placing the idea of ordered liberty and its associated moral, political, and economic apparatus back at the center of American public life. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
  • The suicidal war on nature alluded to by UN Secretary General Guterres enjoys constitutional blessing, in that constitutions grant supremacy to the regulatory agency of humans over the forces of nature on which all life depends. (lu.se)
  • Instead, Taylor proposes a significance-based view of personhood: What is crucial about agents is that things matter to them. (wikipedia.org)
  • Francis Beckwith, "Abortion, Bioethics, and Personhood: A Philosophical Reflection" This belief in the underlying unity of an individual is a metaphysical and moral belief referred to as the substance view of personhood. (wikipedia.org)
  • Is there any constitutional basis for this view of foreign law? (joshblackman.com)
  • Hear Fr Stephen explain why we have had 46 years of preborn mass murder and how we can decisively end this constitutional Crisis! (protestchildkilling.com)
  • In the intervening years, education has been searching for a constitutional home, and property has presented itself as a possibility. (columbialawreview.org)
  • All that personhood-dodging by federal candidates who previously gushed about banning abortion and the most commonly used forms of birth control? (coloradopols.com)