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Igel

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8. That would make a constitutional amendment just another law.

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #7)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 12:04 PM

Jul 2023

I've never heard of a state (but I haven't looked at all 50 state constitutions) that didn't require the more complete democratic process of a referendum. Some pass with a simple majority, some have a greater majority necessary for passage.

This is especially annoying in TX which has a bloated constitution. For some reason, it was decided that all sorts of things usually handled by laws needed to be in the TX state constitution. That link has 297 PDF pages of text.

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