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Title

  • Main Title Constitutional Conventions: Political and Legal Questions
  • Series Title CRS Issue Briefs

Creator

  • Author: Huckabee, David C.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Government Division
  • Author: McCoy, Meredith
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: American Law Division

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 1985-07-08

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This report discusses the applications that have been passed by 32 of the necessary 34 State legislatures to convene a convention to propose an amendment prohibiting abortion. Because this process for amending the Constitution has never been used, several unresolved legal and policy questions arise governing the convening and the authority of such a convention.
  • Physical Description: 23 p.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Constitution and constitutional amendments
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Abortion
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Deficit financing
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Constitutional amendments
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Constitutional conventions
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Abortion

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: IB80062
  • Accession or Local Control No: IB80062 1985-07-08
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metacrs9057
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