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Legislatively-referred amendment: Iowa Require Citizenship to Vote in State Elections and Allow 17-Year-Olds to Vote in Primaries Amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add only a citizen of the U.S., rather than every citizen of the U.S., can vote; and supports allowing 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the ...
Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina used to be more reliably Republican. Trump won North Carolina twice, but the margins were close in 2020. The last Democrat to win there was Barack Obama in 2008.
Georgia was considered to be a crucial swing state in 2024. [3] Republican Donald Trump flipped Georgia back into the Republican column, winning with a majority and a margin of 2.2% over Kamala Harris, which was only slightly greater than his national margin of victory (in contrast to being about 7 points to the right of the nation in 2016).
Parental Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. The amendment's advocates say that it will allow parents' rights to direct the upbringing of their children, protected from federal interference, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Amendment was first proposed during the 110th Congress as House Joint ...
However, over time, key amendments to the Constitution, like the 14th, 15th, and 19th Amendments, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, expanded voting rights to Black men and women.
Georgia Constitutional Amendment 1 [4] of 2004, is an amendment to the Georgia Constitution that previously made it unconstitutional for the state to recognize or perform same-sex marriages or civil unions. The referendum was approved by 76% of the voters. [5] The text of the amendment states:
Other constitutional amendments, including ones dealing with voter ID and income tax, ... That case still hasn’t been resolved, but if voters approve new amendments in 2024, it could become moot
The current and tenth Georgia State Constitution was ratified on November 2, 1982, replacing the previous 1976 constitution. [1] Amendments to the Constitution may be proposed in the Georgia legislature and must be approved by a two-thirds majority vote of both the state House and state Senate followed by ratification by a majority of the ...