ARTICLE X: ADOPTION

Section 1. This Constitution shall be submitted to the law student body for its adoption by a two-thirds majority vote of the existing governing body of the Student Bar Association, and shall be adopted upon the affirmative vote of no less than a two-thirds majority of the law student population so voting in general referendum.

Section 2. This Constitution shall enter into full force and effect on December 1, 1997, superseding any and all governing documents and instruments existing prior to that date.

Section 3. The entrance into force of this Constitution shall not affect the tenure of any elected or appointed official of the Student Bar Association who shall have been elected and/or appointed under the law student governing system existing prior to December 1, 1997, provided that:

a. The bodies, offices, and titles of office utilized by individuals and bodies elected and/or created under the previous law student governing system shall hereby be automatically converted into the analogous new bodies, offices, and titles of office of this Constitution. b. In order to ensure the Honor Court's expanded and new independent role within the constitutional system of the Student Bar Association, no law student Justice of the Honor Court shall hold any other elected office within the Student Bar Association as of April 1, 1998. c. The graduate law programs shall not elect Senators until the Senate elections held in the spring of 1998. d. Determination of the number of Senators an academic class shall be entitled to elect shall commence on the second Tuesday of September, 1998, provided that the Class of 1998 shall continue to be entitled to six Senators; the Class of 1999 seven Senators, and the Class of 2000 eight Senators for the remainder of each respective class' tenure at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. e. The Senate Counsel shall not exercise the duties contained in Article II, Section 5 (b), (c), and (d) of this Constitution until April 1, 1998. The Senate shall proscribe the discharge of such functions until this date by appropriate legislation.

DONE, at the City of Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, this Thirteenth day of November, 1997.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Representatives of the Law Students of Case Western Reserve University, have subscribed their names.

The Constitution Drafting Committee

Mark Douglas
Timothy Goodman, Chair
Kristin O'Brien Molloy
Victor Perez
Michael Tucci
Cheryl Lee Young