Article: Jerry Brown, California's attorney general, thinks that the voters have approved an unconstitutional constitutional amendment. Last year the state supreme court foisted same-sex marriage on the state.(The Week)(Brief article)

Article: Opponents push for constitutional amendment to undo ...
AP Worldstream;  May 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the stay. The remedy is a constitutional amendment. With a stroke of a pen ... Californians to vote on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage ... spokesman for Attorney General Jerry Brown, whose office argued to ...

Article: The people made me do it: can the people of the states instruct ...
William and Mary Law Review;  March 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... earthquakes, mudslides, internet boom and bust stories, and Jerry Brown back in politics? Amid all this unpredictability, however ... sovereignty, congressional term limits, and the federal constitutional amendment process. As expected, last summer the California Supreme ...

Article: Jerry Brown Trying to Sink California Marriage ...
Human Events;  August 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... general, Jerry Brown was supposed ... But what Jerry Brown did was to ... Marriage. Constitutional Amendment." to "Eliminates ... Initiative. Constitutional Amendment." Most experts ... for worse, Jerry Brown's ballot ...

Article: Jerry Brown urges court to void Prop. 8
Between the Lines;  December 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... California Attorney General Jerry Brown changed course on the state's ... marriage supporters. The measure, a constitutional amendment that passed with 52 percent of the ... orientation that cannot be taken away by a constitutional amendment. "It is not an easy argument ...

Article: Jerry Brown: Court should review Prop. 8
Oakland Tribune;  November 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... California Attorney General Jerry Brown urged the California Supreme ... constitutional revision rather than a constitutional amendment and so can't be allowed to ... Studies at Sacramento State. "Jerry Brown is in a dilemma," Hodson ...

Article: Jerry Brown's meddling
Oakland Tribune;  August 1, 2008 ;     535 words ... ... the November ballot, Proposition 8. This time it is a constitutional amendment, not a statutory measure, that is designed to overturn ... they did so under a title approved by Attorney General Jerry Brown's office. It said the proposition "amends the California ...

Article: Same-Sex Marriage Likely Headed to Courts in California; ...
U.S. News & World Report;  November 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... should throw out any legal challenges. But in his brief, Jerry Brown, the state's attorney general, says the matter requires ... changes to the law that it should not be viewed simply as a constitutional amendment. Instead, the couples say, it should be considered ...