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Well, doing a prop 8 search on twitter is encouraging, but we all know that only taking a sample from the wired world is not representative.
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Awesome. Just got handed a letter from an openly gay coworker asking to vote against 8 (in which I learned he was married in '04 in SF to his partner). I of course told him I already was. It was in an envelope with my name on it, so I assume he's only handing them to people whom he has a working relationship with and is not blanketing the company, but good for him for doing something!
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I object to the idea of amending any constitution to limit standard rights for particular groups of people. Generally constitutional changes are reserved for specifically enumerating rights.
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Which will, in fact, be the basis of the lawsuit filed if Prop H8 passes. There's some sort of precedent which holds the Constitution cannot be amended by ballot initiatives for the purpose of taking away Constutitional rights ... or some such thing.
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The problem, as I see it, is (and I'm assuming that it would be the same as the federal Constitution) that there is no limitation to what can be an amendment. I would guess that if enough people voted for it, one could amend the constitution declaring that chickens have voting rights and the owners have the power to vote on behalf of their chickens (thereby reducing the voting power of non-chicken owners).
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scaeagles, there's a limit on what can be amended BY BALLOT MEASURE to the California Constitution. I've seen the case law on it.
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From what I understand, amendments cannot be made based upon vote. Only the legislation can make them.
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