Constitutional Convention-LTE-Daugherty

==Links==
* Constitutional Convention
==Citizen power, Letter to editor==
:Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06298/732621-110.stm
It was a pleasure to see the Post-Gazette editorial
supporting a Pennsylvania constitutional convention
("Got Reform? In This State, It May Take a Constitutional Convention," Oct. 8, 2006).
For more than a year, Democracy Rising PA has been
collecting ideas for constitutional change from
citizens across the state. Out of the 182 ideas
received so far, dozens are appropriate for a
constitutional convention, including initiative and
referendum. All are ideas genuinely offered to improve
our state government. All deserve public debate and
decision.
When representative democracy is at its best, citizens
themselves get the chance to make important decisions.
Then, there can be little doubt that the system is
working as it should and power is where it is designed
to be -- in the people's hands.
Outside the magnificent state Capitol building in
Harrisburg, a quote from William Penn reads,
"Government is of divine origin and any government is
free where laws rule and the people are party to those
laws." A constitutional convention will make our
people party to our laws like nothing else can.
Kathleen Daugherty, Co-founder, Democracy Rising PA, Carlisle, Pa.
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