This year, questions about the PFD, Alaska’s fiscal woes and abortion access have some saying now is the time to vote for a constitutional convention, while others say the document continues to serve the state well.
Delegates to Alaska’s 1955 constitutional convention, which produced the document under which Alaska achieved statehood.
“[Alaska’s Constitution] is very much like the United States Constitution in that it is short and specific, laying out the foundation for the state without going into a lot of detail that would have required changes,” Fischer said.to allow for the Permanent Fund, prohibit sex discrimination and create a right to privacy clause, for example. But changing the constitution on a broader and more fundamental level requires a constitutional convention.
Vic Fischer, the last surviving delegate of Alaska’s original 1955 constitutional convention, displays a copy of the Alaska Constitution. . But in Alaska, the constitutional convention question is usually voted down by a wide margin, with one exception. In 1970, voters narrowly approved a convention, a vote that was later overturned in court because the ballot language was deemed misleading. When the question came before voters again two years later, it was voted down.
“A new constitutional convention can take the existing convention and dump it, just start from scratch and do something completely different. And I’m not sure that makes any sense when we have the best constitution in the United States, which has worked extremely well,” he said.“Really, what we’ve seen over the last few years is some very significant changes in our economy and how things operate in Alaska, and our constitution needs to reflect some of those changes,” he said over Zoom.
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