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Marriage Amendment: In California, your state constitutional rights are in the hands of your neighbors
- Michael Peabody
- June 22, 2008
- Akhil Amar
- ballot initiative
- California Constitution
- California Secretary of State
- California Supreme Court Marriage Amendment
- gay marriage
- Majoritarian
- Majoritarianism
- Michael Dorf
- Opinion
- Same-Sex Marriage
- Sunday Closing Laws
- Sunday Rest Laws
- tyranny of the majority
- Vikram Amar
There has been much discussion about the California ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriages from a moral / social / religious perspective, but not much about the concept of overturning court decisions by majority vote. Vikram David Amar at Findlaw writes in a post entitled, “The California Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Opinion: The People […]
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