We in his corner have long believed it is a mistake to have Colorado's Constitution so easily amended.
At the same time we believe it is an important right for citizens to be able to initiate the process to change the law or include new items in it.
Constitutional amendments are very difficult to tinker with if they are not working as their proponents had intended, which is fine if they are given great thought and an appropriately rigorous process.
Our Founders, as we have mentioned before, understood this and while making the Constitution amendable and anticipating that it would be; felt that the process should be stretched over some long period of time and have adequate debate. Remember it took awhile for us to get our Constitution agreed upon at all.
Statutes however, can be changed much more easily, which is precisely why many wish to see their ideas as amendments rather than statutes. Most of the time they simply do not trust the legislature to leave citizen initiated statutes alone since the idea must not have been something the legislature was too crazy about to begin with, or they would have done it themselves.
A worthy concern especially when we see how many of the provisions in the rejected Referendum I are stealthily finding themselves into the statute books.
The key here is to make a bit of noise about such nonsense.
At any rate, the legislature has passed a resolution to place on the ballot a methodology that will make it easier to amend or create statutes and slightly more difficult to amend and create additions to the Constitution. Click on this paragraph for the story
At this point we support that but will follow its discussion in the coming months.
