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HELP DEFEND THE MISSOURI CONSTITUTION
FROM TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY!

Fill out a witness form IN FAVOR of SJR 61.
See the link in the green box, below.

Missouri First Home

January 26, 2024

I haven't asked for your help in a while, but I need it now. Here's the background...

Look at this map of the Amendment 3 vote in 2022. Notice the sea of red and pink counties that voted NO to enshrining a billion dollar per year marijuana monopoly in the Missouri Constitution?

100 counties voted NO, and only 16 voted YES, but it passed anyway because of the concentration of left-thinking people in the urban areas.

Amendment 3 Map

There is a solution for this "tyranny of the majority," one as old as our Republic.

It's called Concurrent Majority Ratification (CMR) and it would, if added to the Missouri Constitution by the voters, finally give a voice to rural Missouri, just like the electoral college gives a voice to the smaller states when selecting a new president.

 

HERE'S HOW CMR WORKS - SJR 61

Currently, it only takes a simple majority vote to amend our state constitution. It's not like amending the U.S. Constitution, which requires a 3/4 concurrence of the states.

CMR would be more like the way the U.S. Constitution is amended. It requires that TWO conditions be met to adopt (or Ratify) a proposed amendment to the Missouri Constitution:

1) A simple majority of voters, statewide must say YES, AND ALSO,

2) A majority of the voters in each of more than half the state's 163 House districts must vote YES.

Some call this "IP Reform" but it doesn't affect the petition process at all. It only raises the bar on the approval or ratification side of the equation.

See the right side bar for more details and how CMR is steeped in American history.

Click here for a deep dive into CMR: https://www.mofirst.org/issues/ratification/CMR-Booklet.pdf

 

Here are the key features in SJR 61:

  1. Good ratification reform, like SJR 61, will apply to all three ways the Constitution can be amended.

    1. Citizens of Missouri can collect enough signatures to put a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot, independent of the General Assembly.

    2. The General Assembly (state legislature) can propose amendments to the Missouri Constitution..

    3. Either voters or the General Assembly can call a Constitutional Convention, select delegates, and put either amendments or a whole new constitution..

  2. Good ratification reform, like SJR 61, will give voice to ALL Missourians using Concurrent Majority Ratification (CMR).

    1. Besides the current simple majority statewide vote, to be adopted amendments ALSO have to garner a majority of votes of the people from more than half the state House districts.

 

A RIGHT TO ABORTION IN THE MISSOURI CONSTITUTION

Getting Concurrent Majority Ratification in our state Constitution is more important than ever, since RIGHT NOW abortion proponents are circulating a petition to put an amendment guaranteeing the "right" to kill unborn babies up to a full nine months of gestation.

This amendment would even allow partial birth abortion.

Over the last couple of years, these people have been successful in every state they have worked on.

This radical amendment will actually protect the "right" of anyone - not just doctors - to perform abortions. I'll be sending more details in another email, but you can read the actual language here: https://www.mofirst.org/emails/Abortion-Petition-2024-086-2.pdf

In liberty,

Ron Calzone

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Virtually every law in American is made by Concurrent Majority, other than ratifying amendments to state constitution.

The U.S. Constitution is not ratified by a popular vote -- it is ratified by a concurrent majority consensus of the states. Every legislature is made up of representatives of citizens from districts from a broad geographic area and it takes a consensus of those areas to pass a bill.

Even the president is selected by concurrent majority – that's what the Electoral College is.

SJR 28 and SJR 33, would require a concurrent majority to amend the Missouri Constitution.

It requires two conditions be met for ratification: 1) A statewide majority popular vote, just as we have now, and 2) A majority popular vote in more than half the state House districts.

This requirement applies to initiative, legislative, and convention proposed amendments (or entire constitution in the case of a convention).

"That all political power is vested in and derived from the people; that all government of right originates from the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole."

"That the people of this state have the inherent, sole and exclusive right to regulate the internal government and police thereof, and to alter and abolish their constitution and form of government whenever they may deem it necessary to their safety and happiness, provided such change be not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States.."

"The people reserve power to propose and enact or reject laws and amendments to the constitution by the initiative, independent of the general assembly, and also reserve power to approve or reject by referendum any act of the general assembly, except as hereinafter provided."

 

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