This royal charter will only be changed with a two thirds majority of MPs and peers.
Californians also voted to let their state legislature pass budgets with a simple majority, instead of a two-thirds majority, while keeping a two-thirds requirement for any tax increase.
Among its nine initiatives, California offered a proposition that could reduce government gridlock by lowering the minimum needed for the legislature to approve a state budget, making it a simple majority instead of a two-thirds majority.
The speaker's election required a two-thirds majority for the first two rounds and a simple majority in the voting reaches a third round, said analyst Macharia Munene, an international relations professor at Nairobi's United States International University.
The result was a two-thirds majority against a ban on genetic modification of plants and animals and their release into the environment.
LA's schools is that they have been unable to raise money through bond issues because of the requirement that such proposals get a two-thirds majority in a referendum.
That decision must still be ratified by a two-thirds majority in a postal ballot of Reform's 65, 000 members in March, but it looks as if Mr Manning's plan has soared over its first hurdle.
The Vatican's constitution requires a two-thirds majority to elect a new pope.
Her four-party alliance, which has a two-thirds majority in the new parliament, contains two hardline Islamic parties, a fact that has made the Americans sit up and take notice.
Thus, a two-thirds majority vote needed for a guilty verdict has never been a likely outcome of the trial.
The constitutional changes required for a proper parliamentary system will need a two-thirds majority in the assembly and a referendum.
Of course, lacking a two-thirds majority (or now even a simple majority with Nanayakkara's defection) makes it difficult for the government to push any constitutional changes through Parliament.
To do so, they must win either a majority of votes overall or take a two-thirds majority in three out of the 18 provinces.
"They were close to getting a two-thirds majority, and that will mean a stable and secure government, " said James Chin, a Malaysian political science professor and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.
Since even Dr Mahathir's opponents seek merely to deprive him of a two-thirds majority in the general election a moral victory, they say it is likely that his party will win once again.
After the bill was brought up under a procedure that required a two-thirds majority for passage and failed, Mr. Weiner gave a loud, animated speech haranguing Mr. King and his Republican colleagues, most of whom voted no.
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Under the current Constitution, you need a two-thirds majority in Parliament to see your changes through, as well as a win in a nationwide referendum.
The referendum was held only because, under pressure from the League, Mr Berlusconi rammed the reform through parliament by a simple majority, rather than strike a deal with the opposition to secure a two-thirds majority in each parliamentary chamber.
Despite ceding more parliamentary seats to the opposition compared with the last general election in 2008, when the Front fell below a two-thirds majority for the first time, the coalition bettered market expectations by securing a solid majority of 133 seats in the 222-member Parliament.
What Prime Minister Erdogan was really after was a two-thirds majority that would have enabled him to change the military-era constitution with a minimum of consultation.
It won majority support but did not pass because it was brought up under special rules requiring a two-thirds majority.
The cardinals will vote four times daily until a single candidate garners a two-thirds majority.
It would take a two-thirds majority in each house of Congress to do so.
Congress would vote on each increase, but a two-thirds majority would be required to block them.
The plan now goes to the legislature where it needs a two-thirds majority to pass.
Today, the combined population of Israel and Judea and Samaria leaves Jews with a two-thirds majority.
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Such appointments require a two-thirds majority, and thus would have involved an agreement with the opposition.
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Because the bill requires changes to California tax law, its passage requires a two-thirds majority vote .
KPMG, the failure to achieve a two-thirds majority makes it hard for Congress to push though legislation.
The state's otherwise puny Republicans have the power to block tax increases, which require a two-thirds majority vote.
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