(UPDATES) SEN. Robinhood Padilla filed a petition before the Supreme Court on Monday asking it to determine whether the Senate and the House of Representatives should vote jointly or separately on amendments to the Constitution.
SEN. Robinhood Padilla filed a petition before the Supreme Court on Monday asking it to determine whether the Senate and the House of Representatives should vote jointly or separately on amendments to the Constitution.The question has been a sticking point to previous attempts to amend the Constitution, with senators tending to support separate voting and members of the House joint voting.'The ones who drafted the Constitution have admitted ...
of the Constitution.He invoked the Supreme Court's constitutional power to 'settle an existing, actual controversy,' which are purely questions of law, 'as it ruminates on the proper application and interpretation of Constitutional provisions.''Without the honorable Court's declarative pronouncements, these questions, as well as the unstable relations between the two Houses of Congress, shall persist,' Padilla said.
, be treated as a two-thirds vote in the Senate plus a two-thirds vote in the House, or a two-thirds vote of all 24 senators and all members of the House.Finally, he asked the Supreme Court to declare whether the requirement of a 'majority vote' under Sec. 3, Art. can be treated as a majority vote in the Senate plus a majority vote in the House or a majority vote of all 24 senators voting with all members of the House when voting to amend the Constitution.Padilla noted the 'tension' between members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, which started from the people's initiative proposal that included both Houses voting jointly.
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