Comments on: A Constitutional Convention for California? http://www.revivingliberalism.com/a-constitutional-convention-for-california/2009/07/ The Home of Rootstock Liberalism Fri, 18 May 2012 14:10:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Alex http://www.revivingliberalism.com/a-constitutional-convention-for-california/2009/07/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Alex Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:15:36 +0000 http://www.revivingliberalism.com/?p=567#comment-183 "At any constitutional convention the interest groups that support “lower taxes” and those that support “more services” will be well-represented. Thus, the very same incoherence that we find in our present constitution will be well represented at any future constitutional convention. The resulting constitution will be just as incoherent." Surely that argument could be made against any attempt to rewrite a constitution anywhere in the world. A balance can be found, and it is much easier to find such balance when issues are discussed in a convention, rather than voted on at the ballot box. “At any constitutional convention the interest groups that support “lower taxes” and those that support “more services” will be well-represented. Thus, the very same incoherence that we find in our present constitution will be well represented at any future constitutional convention. The resulting constitution will be just as incoherent.”

Surely that argument could be made against any attempt to rewrite a constitution anywhere in the world. A balance can be found, and it is much easier to find such balance when issues are discussed in a convention, rather than voted on at the ballot box.

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