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power of the legislature to call the convention may be

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dependent upon other constitutional provisions such as

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declaration that all government emanate from the people

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and may be changed by the people. We felt this specific

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provision should -be settled once and for all and we

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therefore included in this GP-8.

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This recommendation involves substantially

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the Alaska Constitution and it permits, the way we have

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presented it to you for your consideration, permits the

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immediate legislative reaction to emergency situations.

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There is one change in it we made that was

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contrary to the draft recommendation, draft Commission

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recommendation. 'That was that we change the term for

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calling the convention from twenty years to twenty-five

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years. I can see there is nothing magical about either

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twenty-five or twenty. There were some recommendations

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in the committee, numbers again, changing it from forty

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back to ten, we finally decided on twenty-five years.

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Number one, we found there was a similar

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provision contained in eleven state constitutions including

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three more recently adopted. That would be Alaska, Hawaii