The Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land is proposing legislation to establish procedures for a possible Constitutional Convention, a move that prepares Michigan if next year voters call for one.
Voters decide every 16 years whether a convention will be convened to revise Michigan's Constitution, and that means that the question will be on the 2010 general election ballot. Land's proposal ensures that a process is in place should the ballot question be approved.
You can read the proposed rules here, but I would like to comment that they seem fair and acceptable. Michigan has had 4 Constitutions since it became a state- 1963, 1908, 1850, and 1835, so as you can see, we are due for a new Constitution that updates our government and refocuses it.
As a side note, I would like to point out that voters in the 1850 Constitution took away the state's power to make internal improvements because of the disasters of state boondoggles such as a canal across the state- apparently, we are now ignoring this directive from the voters and letting the state government direct the economy in our state through the MEDC and other unconstitutional state-endorsed boondoggle creators (SEBC's?).
It is going to be important that if we do have a Constitutional Convention, we get the right people there- it is going to be important that voters put aside their partisan differences and vote for the candidates who promise lower taxes, lower fees, less regulation, more freedom, more liberty, more justice, and a better society- it is going to be important that voters vote this election.
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