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The election on Tuesday highlights how Republican legislators are using their power in Ohio and elsewhere. For more than a century, Ohio voters have been able to amend the State Constitution with a simple majority vote. That could end on Tuesday, because the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature has called for a special election that would raise the bar for amendments from a simple

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution Thursday which he hopes can be secured and used to restrict gun ownership. The Associated Press reported that Newsom’s amendment, which would be the twenty-eighth amendment, would institute a waiting period on firearm purchases, ban firearms which Democrats label “assault weapons,” and secure universal background

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Supporters of a constitutional amendment to guarantee “reproductive decisions” have collected almost a half million valid signatures, more than the 413,487 signatures needed. “This November, there will be this abortion amendment on the ballot,” said Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose. The proposed amendment change guarantees, in part, that “every individual has a

If Artificial Intelligence were an angel, there’d be no need for its governance. That’s a 21st-century updating of James Madison’s famous dictum from the 18th century: In Federalist 51 he wrote, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” Nothing man-made is angelic. A.I. is no exception.   

We don’t all need to be experts on A.I. to survive and flourish, but we need some