"Jodi" <hellofromjodi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:10kfnlg884q3456@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thought this was interesting:
>
> http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2400558,00.html
>
>
> In 1990, voters passed an initiative on a 55 to 44 percent tally making
it
> illegal to possess any amount of marijuana, but last year the appeals
> court
> not only ruled voters didn't have the authority to change the state
> constitution, but defined 4 ounces or less of marijuana as permissible
for
> personal use at home.
Just a question here - as Alaska is a USA state, who has the right to
change
the constitution if not the voters? Eg, if they are saying only the
elected
Govt of the state has that right, then what is there to stop the state
govt
from changing he constitution so that it is illegal for them to lose
office?
In short, that idea seems ludicrous that the voters dont have the right to
change the constitution. After all, the constitution is an agreed upon set
of laws that the people accept, not something that a dictator imposes!
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