The Mississippi Senate failed to vote on SC 518, and it is now beyond the legislative deadline for bills to have passed their house of origin. SC 518 would have restored the statewide initiative, which was eliminated by a 2021 ruling of the State Supreme Court. This is the fourth legislative session in a row in which attempts to revive the initiative have failed.
Good. Keep on failing.
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The Mississippi Constitution provides for the initiative to amend the constitution. It is inoperative because its distribution requirement of signatures in five congressional districts is impossible to meet since Mississippi only has four congressional districts. Mississippi could amend its constitution, but has failed to do so. Some legislators may prefer it that way.
SC 518 would have amended the constitution to provide for statutory initiative and referendum. This might have been an attempt to get support for a less drastic means of enacting law. Some “constitutional” amends have a form and level of detail that is more appropriate to statute.
The Mississippi Constitution was amended in 1912 to provide for both constitutional initiative and statutory initiative and referendum. The Mississippi Supreme Court in 1917 overturned the the 1912 amendment on grounds that it applied to both constitution and statutes, and should have been presented to the voters as two separate measures.
It was not until 1992 that Mississippi again approved constitutional initiative. The legislature may have been cognizant of 1917 ruling, and chose not to include statutory initiative and referendum.
Two initiatives in 1992 and 1995 that provided for term limits were rejected by the voters. Mississippi lost its fifth representative in 2001 which theoretically would have made the constitutional amendment process inoperative. Nonetheless, two initiative amendments were apparently approved in 2015, and another in 2021.
The 2021 amendment providing for medical marijuana was challenged on grounds that the amendment process was inoperative due to the loss of a representative. The Mississippi Supreme Court agreed.
Concerned that the 2015 initiatives could be legally challenged, the Mississippi legislature in 2022 enacted in statute the substance of the three initiatives that had won majority popular support, though procedurally flawed. These dealt with eminent domain, voter ID, and medical marijuana.
I don’t care, I will still vote for Trump no matter what.
Might there be a chance there will be a new referendum on returning the Confederate Flag emblem to the state flag? They had gotten half the signatures needed for a statewide vote.
You also can’t spell NAZI without AZ !!! I am on the side of TRIUMPH with TRUMP and defeating the NAZIS and AZ !!!
@MS,
There apparently was a concern with SC 518 that dark money interests from outside Mississippi would pour millions into passing an initiative. SC 518 would also increase the number of signatures needed, from 12% of the gubernatorial vote to 10% of registered voters. This would increase the required signatures from 99,000 to 190,000.
Restoring the flag should be a no brainer. We need to do that in Georgia too.
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Relax and don’t worry, it’s going to be fine. The White People’s movement keeps getting bigger all the time. I’m dreaming of a White nation, just like the ones that I once knew. And now with mass deportation, my dream is starting to come true!