Submitted by DietCokeMachine t3_yop5oa in newhampshire
Adeling79 t1_ivh57s6 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Question 2 - "Shall there be a convention to amend or revise the constitution?" by DietCokeMachine
Agreed. The current New Hampshire constitution is wildly out-of-date. It starts by referring to humans as "men" or - in the more common interpretation - of only referring to the male sex (Source). The Bill of Rights also only protects religious people, but not atheists.
New Hampshire has one of the world's largest Houses of Representatives, even though it's one of the world's smallest democracies (by population). There is no reason we could not trim the number of representatives down by a reasonable number, and then increase the salaries of those remaining so that our representatives need not be independently wealthy or retired (Source).
I could go on, but I don't think any reasonable person would object to those two suggestions being on the ballot, even if they don't agree with the ideas themselves.
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