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Note: This category consists of amendments to the United States Constitution approved by Congress and proposed to the states for consideration but not (yet) ratified by the required number of states to become part of the Constitution.
The Twelfth Amendment requires the Senate to choose between the candidates with the "two highest numbers" of electoral votes. If multiple individuals are tied for second place, the Senate may consider them all. The Twelfth Amendment introduced a quorum requirement of two-thirds of the whole number of senators for the conduct of balloting.
A referendum on Amendment 1 to the Constitution of Hawaii was held on November 5, 2024. The amendment repealed the Hawaii State Legislature's ability to limit marriage to heterosexual couples, [2] reversing the 1998 Hawaii Marriage Amendment. [3] The measure passed with 51.3% of the vote in support and 40.4% in opposition. [1]
Some background: A Hawaii constitutional amendment adopted in 1998 gives the state Legislature the power to restrict marriage to just opposite-sex couples. In 2013, two years before the Supreme ...
Mar. 7—The state Senate will now consider a House bill calling for a constitutional amendment to repeal the Legislature's authority to limit marriage to opposite-sex couples. The state Senate ...
Dec. 1—In 1998, 69 % of Hawaii residents supported a constitutional amendment that marriage should be reserved only for opposite-sex genders. Today same-sex marriages have about 70 % support ...
Adoption of marriage amendments over time. Prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v.Hodges (2015), U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions of several different types passed, banning legal recognition of same-sex unions in U.S. state constitutions, referred to by proponents as "defense of marriage amendments" or "marriage protection amendments."
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.