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 thirty-eight per cent of them are right in amending the Constitution for the other sixty-two per cent. Let the minority rule!

As there are no limitations on the powers of the voters to amend the Oregon Constitution, it would not be impossible to have an amendment providing for referendum votes on decisions of the Supreme Court. A petition with nine thousand signatures would require such an amendment to be submitted to a vote at the next election.

I have written to show in how crude, unsatisfactory, and ignorant a manner radical changes may be made by initiative amendments to a carefully considered and established Constitution, such as Oregon has had for more than fifty years. It is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when the legal voters of Oregon will invoke the initiative to abolish it.