Amendment, Section 3
An initiative created under the authority of this Article that modifies a constitution or charter assumes the force of law when it is approved by more than half the registered voters of the relevant jurisdiction in each of two successive elections conducted by the Electoral Trust. If such initiative is approved in the first election, the second election shall occur no earlier than six months and no later than a year after the first election. An initiative created under the authority of this Article that enacts, modifies or repeals any statute assumes the force of law when approved by more than half the registered voters of the relevant jurisdiction participating in an election conducted by the Electoral Trust.
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Parrish Report
This section identifies the "initiative" as the legislative tool to be employed by the People to implement the authority and the legislative power asserted in Section 1. Amending the Constitution is made considerably more difficult than enacting statute laws by requiring a majority of registered voters in two elections. Enacting statute law only requires a majority vote of those voting in one election The difference is important and proper in that constitutional law is fundamental law and should be above the whims and passions of normal legislative decision-making. Those states that presently make no serious distinction in this regard find their constitutions littered with technical and administrative detail to a degree that inappropriately impedes the legislature and renders the constitutions hardly understandable or correctable.