Amendment 2
Petitions for amendments should be filed 6 months earlier. No. As it stands now, the legislature creates law (or fails to) with complete disregard of their constituents desires. The petition for amendments is one of the ways you as a citizen can change the law when your representatives won’t listen to you. An earlier deadline will give less a chance for inclusion. I do not approve of the way the amendment process currently works. If our elected officials were not always concerned with special interests with deep pockets, there would be no need for some amendments. Some of the laws (last elections pregnant pigs, for instance) certainly do not belong in the Constitution, but legislators ignore those pushing for these changes, so right now, amendments are the only recourse. Until it changes, we are stuck with the current amendment process.
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