Dixon v. Hall, Secretary of State

Ed. F. MoFaddiN

(dissenting). Constitutional Amendment No. 7 is generally called the “Initiative and Referendum Amendment.” It was submitted at the general election in 1920, but not until the Special Supreme Court rendered the decision in Brickhouse v. Hill, 167 Ark. 513, 268 S. W.' 865, on February 16, 1925, did the amendment become adopted officially.

The various paragraphs in the amendment are not numbered; so it is difficult to refer to any particular provision. But in the constitutional amendment as published in Pope’s Digest, certain paragraphs begin with capitalized catchwords; and, by…