Examiner: Colorado Considers Supermajority for Constitutional Referenda
How difficult should it be for citizens to change their state constitution? They’ll be deciding that question in Colorado, where the state Senate is considering Concurrent Resolution 1, which would raise the threshold for constitutional referenda to 60 percent. The measure is supported by both political parties — it is co-sponsored by six of 15 GOP senators and 16 of 33 GOP representatives — but Paul Jacob, president of the Citizens in Charge Foundation, denounces it as an anti-democratic measure which “places the Colorado Constitution in the hands of a minority of voters.”