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- From: chuck@sage.cgd.ucar.edu (Chuck D'Ambra)
- Subject: Re: Why is it so easy to amend our constitution?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.171019.9341@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: The Big Cracker
- References: <1992Nov19.070706@eklektix.com>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:10:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.070706@eklektix.com>, rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
- |> Watching all the brouhaha over Amendment 2, I've been thinking back to
- |> something a friend asked shortly before the election: "Why is all this
- |> crap going into the constitution?" 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?? And on the
- |> other side, why is a measure as controversial as 2--and as fundamental in
- |> its implications for both civil rights and law-making--passed by a simple
- |> majority.
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- Excellent point. However, the bear hunt question (#10) was one of the few
- (only?) ballot initiatives this year that did not propose an amendment to the
- state constitution. It simply changed, as you say, "ordinary law."
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- Chuck D'Ambra
- chuck@sage.cgd.ucar.edu
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