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[deleted] t1_ivgmmg7 wrote

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Adeling79 t1_ivh57s6 wrote

Agreed. The current New Hampshire constitution is wildly out-of-date. It starts by referring to humans as "men" or - in the more common interpretation - of only referring to the male sex (Source). The Bill of Rights also only protects religious people, but not atheists.

New Hampshire has one of the world's largest Houses of Representatives, even though it's one of the world's smallest democracies (by population). There is no reason we could not trim the number of representatives down by a reasonable number, and then increase the salaries of those remaining so that our representatives need not be independently wealthy or retired (Source).

I could go on, but I don't think any reasonable person would object to those two suggestions being on the ballot, even if they don't agree with the ideas themselves.

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[deleted] t1_ivh9m40 wrote

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4ever48 t1_ivjqvtr wrote

Think of it this way. The more state reps, the more gridlock, the more nothing ever changes. Most Republicans LOVE this.

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