No, that’s not what I meant. By definition, an amendment is a ‘revision’. You need to explain your initial comment further.
“No, that’s not what I meant. By definition, an amendment is a ‘revision’. You need to explain your initial comment further.”
From what I gather there are two ways to change the CA Constitution, a revision and an amendment.
A revision goes to the basic document and makes sweeping changes and must,by law, be started in the legislature with a supermajority,etc.
An amendment is a minor change and can be done with a proposition.
The gays are arguing that they have a basic right to marriage, so Prop. 8 needed to go through the revision process, not the proposition (amendment) process.
But I have read here that they already used that argument before Prop. 8 was put on the ballot and lost in the courts.