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Amendment, such as what that person was sane. >> lauren, i have less than a minute left and i do have to ask. you opponents to what you have trying to do or saying, quote, any major changes to a state constitution should head higher benchmarks than just a simple majority. this clearly ignores the fact that it's been a simple majority for years, and years, and years. quickly, what's your response to that argument that they're making? >> ohioans have had the right for over 100 years. one person, one vote. majority rule. what our opposition is trying to do is get 40% of ohioans the right to make ...
And there isn't a written constitution, a kind of ordinary majority of parliament could change what are called basic laws that have a constitutional stal us in israel. so for all of those reasons, the israeli supreme court as a protector of minority rights and a check on the majority rule is crucial and that is why these reforms from this right-wing f netanyahu have such dramatic impact and have generated such a swell of protests. >> people say that the supreme court in israel has sort of ouro gated to itself powers. but in a sense the american supreme court did that. there was never in the co...
199 s when the israeli supreme court declared that the basic laws were like a constitution and that it, the supreme court had the power to interpret those laws. >> and what netanyahu's government is trying to do by curbing the power of the judiciary seeps to me quite similar to what some of these populist governments in eastern europe are doing, hungary, the polish. in every case it seems that the effort does say brute majority rule should be more important than what judges do. >> right. so if you're an elected party, you've been chosen to rule the country and the court is obstructing you, get...
Writer says Ohio's constitution is too easy to amend.