To amend or not to amend ?
A variety of propositions to amend the Texas Constitution are on the November ballot DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.com Early voting has begun for the Nov.
7 constitutional amendments election. On the ballot are 14 propositions. If passed, they’ll become Texas law. Why so many amendments? Framers of the Texas Constitution wanted to limit government power.
So the document is written to put limits what the Texas Legislature can do. The legislature can, however, pass resolutions that go to voters to amend the constitution and thereby pass laws through a direct vote of the people.
Not counting the current crop of amendments, Texans have voted on 700 proposed amendments since the current constitution was passed in 1876, passing 517 of them. What’s on the ballot this year? A wide variety of issues face voters in this year’s election.
