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- From: mev@fc.hp.com (Mike Vermeulen)
- Subject: Re: Why is it so easy to amend our constitution?
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:25:18 GMT
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- : Take the bear-hunt thing as an extreme example: regardless of your position
- : on the issue, why does a hand-slap for the Division of Wildlife get written
- : into the constitution??
-
- The bear hunt referendum was a change to the Colorado Revised Statues (CRS)
- and not to the constitution. Amendment 6 was also a change to (CRS) and not
- to the constituion.
-
- Your point is well taken however, as the other referendum all affected the
- constitution. In my opinion, there are two reasons why these things are being
- put in to the constitution:
- + The CRS may be changed by the legislature, and the constitution may not.
- + The issue is affected by something that is already written in the
- constitution, thus this is where some change needs to be made
- (e.g. prohibitions against gambling were in the constitution, hence all
- the gambling referendum needed to change something there).
-
- My speculation is that with the passing of amendments #1 and #8, we will see
- more fiscal choices being made explicit in the constitution (i.e. rather than
- ask the voters for a one-time spending authorization, why not amend some of the
- provisions that were part of amendment #1 to make a particular authorization
- more permanent).
-
- --mev
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