Do you believe that The Constitution of the State of New Hampshire is your tool to control the government of the State of New Hampshire?
Do you know that The Constitution of the State of New Hampshire limits the laws the Legislature can pass, the actions that the Governor and Executive Departments can take, and the decisions the Judiciary can make?
The Constitution is the shackles you put on the behemoth of government so that you can sleep soundly at night.
This year is 2022. If you believe in Liberty, we have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to take back your government. Every ten years, The Constitution of the State of New Hampshire requires the question to be on the ballot: Do you want a State Constitutional Convention? The last time this was on the ballot was 2012. It will be on the ballot in 2022.
Maybe you fear that this will open the Constitution to Amendments that will strip the people of their rights. The answer is no more than the Legislature convening every year. You see the Delegates to the Convention are elected to the same Districts as the State Representatives. If you can trust your State Representative to propose Amendments, you can trust your Delegate to propose Amendments. And remember, to be adopted any proposed amendment still has to be supported by 2/3 of the people.
You might fear bad amendments be adopted, and you are right.
The Amendments diminishing the Legislature’s power over the Supreme and Superior Courts, and giving the Supreme Court the power to make rules came out of Constitutional Conventions. However, they likely passed because the law only required a description of the Amendment to be on the ballot, and the descriptions of those didn’t disclose the full effect of the Amendments. For just this reason, the law was changed in 2002 and requires both a description and the full Amendment to be on the Ballot.
You have to realize that from 1784 to 1964 Constitutional Conventions were the only way to amend The Constitution of the State of New Hampshire. That worked well for 180 years. Since the legislative mechanism was added, there have only been two Conventions, 1973 and 1983. It was the Convention of 1983 that gave Article 2-a, the explicit right to keep and bear arms.
The problem with the legislative route is that the Representatives and Senators are members of government, and have a tendency to maintain the status quo. If you want to prevent the Legislature from giving the power to make laws that you gave them to the other branches of government; if you want to clarify that only the Legislature can invoke martial law; if you want to require there to be a militia. Then the best route for you is a Constitutional Convention.
