11.   The case involved a challenge to a state constitutional amendment approved by voters.

12.   The New York legislature is poised to vote a second time on a state constitutional amendment to legalize gambling.

13.   The state constitutional amendment overrode the power of municipalities to enforce anti-discrimination ordinances on behalf of gays.

14.   These are some of the hot issues that Americans decided Tuesday through initiatives, referendums and state constitutional amendments.

15.   They run the gamut from bills in state legislatures to proposals for state constitutional amendments to initiatives by local school boards.

16.   Thomasson also said the regulation runs counter to a recent Supreme Court decision which struck down a Colorado state constitutional amendment that banned local anti-bias laws that protect gays.

17.   Under Colorado law, the state ban on anti-discrimination legislation can be overcome only by the passage of another state constitutional amendment.

18.   Pataki had originally called for adoption of a state constitutional amendment that would limit how much the state could borrow.

19.   No state constitutional amendment can rewrite that conclusion.

20.   The latter is a reference to the recently adopted state constitutional amendment banning many types of fishing nets from Florida waters.