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In reaction to this, reformers used the initiative to call for a sixth constitutional convention, and the initiative was passed by the voters in 1942. The voters ratified the new constitution in 1945. [2] The Constitution of 1945 remains Missouri's current constitution. [2] Since 1945, there have been at least 119 amendments made to the ...
Missouri statehood, with the Tallmadge Amendment approved, would have set a trajectory towards a free state west of the Mississippi and a decline in southern political authority. The question as to whether the Congress was allowed to restrain the growth of slavery in Missouri took on great importance in slave states.
Sales Tax for Parks and Conservation Measure. Would renew for 10 years a 1984 state amendment which prescribes a 0.1% sales and use tax in order to fund state parks and conservation projects. Passed [10] 2,187,773 (79.88%) 551,117 (20.12%) Amendment 2 State and Judicial Campaign Contribution Limits Initiative.
After trying and failing to pass a federal gun law nullification bill in 2017 after then-Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed it, the Missouri General Assembly passed the Second Amendment Preservation Act in 2021.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the Missouri law violated a section of the U.S. Constitution known as the supremacy clause, which asserts that federal law takes precedence over state laws.
The Missouri General Assembly passed a statute, the Right to Life of the Unborn Child Act, which protects the right to life of the unborn, with exception in cases of medical emergency.
National Foreign Trade Council, 530 U.S. 363 (2000), that even when a state law is not in direct conflict with a federal law, the state law could still be found unconstitutional under the Supremacy Clause if the "state law is an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of Congress's full purposes and objectives". [30]
In 2021, Missouri lawmakers passed and Gov. Mike Parson signed into law the “Second Amendment Preservation Act,” sponsored by now U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison, which attempts to bar federal gun ...