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Show Reay Talks About Utah State Constitution Hello! This is Citizen Reay. This week I would like to discuss our foundation of Government. Namely our national and state constitutions. 1 When our Founding Fathers declared our independence from England they formed a base for a new type of government. gover-nment. It was a very restrictive restric-tive base of Rights and Powers. All the duties of Government was specified. Any power that was not specified was reserved for the states or the people. (Article 9 and 10 U.S. Constitution). We as a people believe that the mind and will of God was manifest in the writing of our national constitution. With this as a base every State constitution con-stitution was written, conforming confor-ming to all the principles of our national constitution, thereby refelecting the same Devine providence. Our state constitution was written, conforming to all the principles of our national con- Our state constitution provides for action to be taken by the people in their free people can initiate any legislation they may desire to be placed on the ballot for the approval or rejection of the people. (Artical 6 Sec 1, subsection sub-section 2, Utah State Constitution). Con-stitution). This is known as initiative petition. There are two initiative petitions to be voted on this election year. One is the State Budget Ceiling. One on Fluoridation of public culinary water. . Initiative petitions is a basic right of the people. A guard against over whelming governmental power. I have been active in both of these actions. I will discuss Initiative Petitions next week. A vote for American Party Candidates will support Initiative Petition concern. |