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Show 'Utah Constitution needs revision, updating' Court," he said, "but anyone reading the state constitution would not know it is no longer in effect." Other unconstitutional laws in the state constitution are a too strict residency requirement, a misapportioned legislature and a prohibition of 18 to 20-year-olds voting in national elections. All three laws are not effective but are still in the state constitution. Originated Gateway His committee was the originator origina-tor of the Gateway Amendment to the constitution which allows articles to be changed in the constitution con-stitution instead of just issues. This committee is now attempting attempt-ing to have one article changed as a whole on the next ballot. The ,dea ,s to put in changes one article at a time. "It t00 amendments are on one ballot people have a tendency t0 reie,.' all of them," he said. J6U Another advantage of Gateway is that controversial issues can still be voted on separately and the uncontroversial issues can all be passed together as a whole he said. BY RON MITCHELL Chronicle Staff The Utah Constitution is in need of revision, according to Edward W. Clyde, chairman of Institutional Council and of die Constitution Revision Committee. Mr. Clyde said the 1896 state constitution was forced on Utahns as a prerequisite to statehood. "Most of the issues that Congress objected to related to polygamy, however," he explained. He said there are three' reasons the constitution needs change: parts of it arc outdated, unconstitutional unconsti-tutional or unnecessary. Still Prohibits Polygamy An example of an unnecessary provision is an article that prohibits prohi-bits the legislature from passing a law legalizing polygamy. He said the law might have been necessary to gain statehood, but there is no fear of the legislature legalizing polygamy in the near future. "This is not one of the articles we plan to revise," he said. "People might suspect our motives and the law really isn't hurting anything." Outdated laws he pointed out are clauses giving specific regulations regula-tions relating only to the railroad industry and "elaborate regulations regula-tions on the paying of the territorial territor-ial debt." He commented that the railroad regulations are outdated by new modes of transportation and the territorial debt has been paid for years. Most Problems Unconstitutional Most of the laws that Mr. Clyde's committee are interested in changing are the unconstitutional unconstitu-tional provisions. One provision says only property prop-erty owners can vote in bond elections. "This was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme |
