ARTICLE
XXIII
AMENDMENT
AND REVISION
Section
1. [Amendments: proposal, election.] Any amendment or amendments to
this Constitution may be proposed in either house of the Legislature,
and if two-thirds of all the members elected to each of the two houses,
shall vote in favor thereof, such proposed amendment or amendments shall
be entered on their respective journals with the yeas and nays taken
thereon; and the Legislature shall cause the same to be published in
at least one newspaper in every county of the State, where a newspaper
is published, for two months immediately preceding the next general
election, at which time the said amendment or amendments shall be submitted
to the electors of the State, for their approval or rejection, and if
a majority of the electors voting thereon shall approve the same, such
amendment or amendments shall become part of this Constitution. If two
or more amendments are proposed, they shall be so submitted as to enable
the electors to vote on each of them separately.
Sec.
2. [Revision of the constitution.] Whenever two-thirds of the members,
elected to each branch of the Legislature, shall deem it necessary to
call a convention to revise or amend this Constitution, they shall recommend
to the electors to vote, at the next general election, for or against
a convention, and, if a majority of all the electors, voting at such
election, shall vote for a convention, the Legislature, at its next
session, shall provide by law for calling the same. The convention shall
consist of not less than the number of members in both branches of the
Legislature.
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3. [Id. Submission to electors.] No Constitution, or amendments adopted
by such Convention, shall have validity until submitted to, and adopted
by, a majority of the electors of the State voting at the next general
election.