The Livingston Sales Tax is collected by the merchant on all qualifying sales made within Livingston Groceries are exempt from the Livingston and Texas state sales taxes Livingston collects a 0% local sales tax, the maximum local sales tax allowed under Texas law Livingston has a lower sales tax than 99.9% of Texas' other cities and counties
Inasmuch as Article V of the Federal Constitution specifies that. amendments shall become effective ââwhen ratified by legislatures of three-fourths of the several. States or by conventions in three-fourths thereof,ââ it has been generally believed that an ap-. proval or veto by a governor is without significance.
For example, Akhil Amar argues that the Constitution may be constitutionally amended outside of Article V. He rejects the notion that Article V excludes other modes of constitutional change, arguing instead that the procedure provided for in Article V is simply the exclusive method the government may use to amend the Constitution.