EDITORIAL: Study Amendments Carefully
The Daily Advertiser (excerpt)

Today, we begin a discussion of the proposed constitutional amendments that will be on the Tuesday ballot.

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When you go to the polls, you will face seven proposed amendments to the state constitution. None of them are of extreme importance or urgency, and none seem to inspire controversy. However, it is important that you study them carefully and cast an informed vote. Some should probably have been enacted as laws instead of embedded in the Constitution. Nonetheless, they have been placed before us as voters, and we are obligated to express our views.