In Re Initiative Petition No. 364

Today the court condemns as unfit for submission to the electorate the initiative measure here under consideration, which calls for a vote on whether the Oklahoma Legislature should be “instructed” to (a) apply that the U.S. Congress call a national constitutional convention for the purpose of (b) submitting to the States a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution whose provisions would impose congressional office term limits. The court’s sentence of nullity rests not on federal law but on the measure’s unfitness for submission under the standards that govern the State’s initiative…