No voter shall sign more petitions for any office than there are positions to be filled.

No student may at any time be nominated for more than one office by petition or other means. He shall not be eligible to hold more than one office in any event.

In circumstance when an elected government position becomes unfilled, the President shall have the power to appoint, with a majority vote consensus of the House of Representatives, a student to fill the position, upon the acceptance of the student.

This Constitution shall be submitted to the Student Body of the Governor's Program for Ratification. It shall be considered ratified when it has been accepted, as shown by a vote, by a simple majority of the voters. It will go into effect upon ratification.

Ratified by the student body on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and sixty seven.

The Director of the Governor's Program for Gifted Children has legal responsibility for the student body of the Governor's Program for Gifted Children, and administrative responsibility for the personnel, financial, and academic policies and practices of the Governor's Program for Gifted Children. The Government shall pass no law impairing the ability of the Director to carry out his legal and administrative responsibilities.

1. The Director may attend any meeting, hearing, trial, or other official function or proceeding of any Branch or agency of the Government. He shall receive notice of all such meetings, hearings, trials, or other official functions and may participate in same, as provided below.

2. The Director may call the House of Representatives, the Senate, or both of them, into session to consider any matter he wishes to place before them, or for any other purpose.

3. The Director shall be an ex-officio member of both houses of the Legislature, but shall have no vote in either body. He shall, at his request, be allowed to exercise all forms of non-voting participation in each house, including without limitation, giving testimony at committee hearings, speaking on any motion or legislation, asking questions, and raising points of order.

4. The Director shall receive prompt notice of all matters instituted in any GPGC Court. At any time, he may join in any matter in the capacity of Intervenor and shall, from the moment of the intervention, enjoy all rights to participate in the proceedings accorded to a party. With or without joining as an Intervenor, he may file an amicus curia brief pertaining to any matter before any GPGC Court. The Director may exercise these rights personally, or through an attorney or other person designated to represent him.

In this Constitution, Acts of the Legislature, and in all other official acts and documents of the Government, the use of the masculine gender will include and apply to the feminine. No Constitutional provision, Act of the Legislature, or other official act or document of the Government shall be construed as applying to persons of one gender only, unless the intent to so apply be clearly evidenced and be consistent with other provisions of this Constitution.

Constitutional amendments become effective immediately upon completion of the last act necessary for their ratification. Acts signed into law by the President shall become effective at noon on the school day immediately following such signature, or at such other day and time stated in the Act. Acts passed notwithstanding the President's veto shall become effective at noon on the school day immediately following approval by the last house of the Legislature to give its two-thirds approval. Acts neither signed nor vetoed by the President shall become law at noon on the third school day following approval by the last house of the Legislature to give its approval; he shall have until such time to either sign the bill or to veto it; provided, however, that there be at least three school days remaining in the session in which the Act was passed. If there are fewer than three school days remaining in the session in which the Act was passed, and if the President does not sign or veto the Act during such time, then the Act shall not become law.

Where this Constitution or an Act of the Legislature specifies that an appointment, legislative action, or similar governmental act take place on or by a specified day, and where such appointment, legislative action, or similar governmental act does not take place on or by the specified day, but occurs later, such lateness does not affect the validity of the appointment, legislative action, or similar governmental act nor does it impair the validity of other governmental acts causally related thereto, unless the clear intent of the relevant Constitutional provision or Act of the Legislature is otherwise. In particular, but without limitation of the foregoing, the failure of the Director to appoint an Election Officer on the first day of the session does not impair the validity of the elections held under the authority of such Election Officer, provided he is appointed sufficiently early to perform his duties.

No Constitutional provision, Act of the Legislature, or other official action of the government may held invalid for any defect in the procedure used to enact, promulgate, or otherwise effectuate it unless suit to do so is filed as provided by law no later than the tenth school day of the session subsequent to the session in which it was enacted, promulgated, or otherwise effectuated. Nothing in this provision shall be construed to impose any time limitation on an action to hold such a Constitutional provision, Act of the Legislature, or other official act of the government invalid for reason of its substance.

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