Massachusetts Amendment

Howard H. Schweber schweber at polisci.wisc.edu
Mon Mar 15 15:09:15 PST 2004


One possibility is that Massachusetts will pass a state constitutional 
amendment that will undo the effect of same-sex marriages performed in the 
interim (presumably by converting those marriages to civil 
unions).  Everything else aside, why is this not a problem from the 
perspective of the Contracts Clause?

Howard Schweber
Dept. of Poli. Sci.
Univ. Wisconsin-Madison



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