A growing number of states are considering ways to make it more difficult to amend their constitutions, but a proposed bill in the state house would make Missouri unique among them.

House Joint Resolution 3 , if passed in the current special session and approved by voters in next year’s midterm election, would require any new constitutional amendments to win each congressional district to be ratified. Currently, only a majority of votes in the state overall is needed to approve an amendment.

John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest University who studies state constitutions, said it’s common for states to have these kinds of distribution requirements across counties or districts during the initiative process, when citizens are seeking enough signatures to put an amendmen

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