Opinion

No need for change to Constitution

Posted October 30, 2008 11:00 pm

The Glen Ellyn League of Women Voters urges Daily Herald readers to vote no on the question of calling a new Constitutional Convention. Our League, in conjunction with over 20 others in Illinois, looked at the constitution that Illinois has now and found it to be a good, workable document.

To be sure, we do not always have a good workable government in Springfield, but that is not the fault of the Constitution. The Constitution as written provides an amendment process, and in fact 10 out of 17 proposed amendments have been approved by voters in the 38 years since the Constitution was adopted. The League believes that the Constitution as written is an important safeguard of individual liberties and a workable framework for state and local government in Illinois.

We do not want to submit the document to the possible special interest groups and partisan politics that might try to gain control of a convention's deliberations. Please join us in voting NO on November 4.

Rinda Allison

Glen Ellyn

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