Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Is there no good idea a politician cannot spoil? Take what’s on next Tuesday’s Missouri ballot. ‘Amendment 4 was my idea, but I am voting against it,’ Ron Calzone wrote on Monday in The Missouri Times. Mr. Calzone had advanced what is called a Concurrent Majority Ratification process. It was introduced into the legislature by Representative Bill Kidd as HJR 132 in 2022. And then politicians started revising. Everyone agreed, says Calzone, that Missouri’s constitution “was too easy to amend,” considering ‘the fact that 50% + 1 of the vote can come from just the urban areas’ and thereby inflict upon less-populated rural regions a ‘Tyranny of the Majority.’ … The current Amendment 4, however, though promoted as a solution, really adds three humongous problems …” (07/31/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/07/31/put-it-out-of-their-missouri/