If this constitution be in any way so amended as to allow laws to be enacted by direct vote of the electors the laws which may be so enacted shall be only such as might be enacted by the legislature under the provisions of this constitution. (As amended November 7, 1911.)

ANNOTATIONS

1911 amendment. — As originally adopted, this section read as does the present text, but it was included in the required amendment of this article which was proposed by congress and incorporated in the congressional resolution of August 21, 1911 (37 Stat. 39), providing for admission of New Mexico as a state, which stipulated that adoption of the amendment should be a prerequisite to admission. It was adopted by the people at the first election of state officers on November 7, 1911, by a vote of 34,897 for and 22,831 against.

Law reviews. — For student symposium, "Constitutional Revision - Constitutional Amendment Process," see 9 Nat. Resources J. 422 (1969).

For article, "The Citizen's Initiative Petition to Amend State Constitutions: A Concept Whose Time Has Passed, or a Vigorous Component of Participatory Democracy at the State Level?", see 28 N.M. L. Rev. 227 (1998).

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 42 Am. Jur. 2d Initiative and Referendum § 13.

Initiative petition, amendment proposed by, 62 A.L.R. 1350.

Number of amendments that may be submitted under initiative and referendum clause, 62 A.L.R. 1350.

Proposition submitted to people as covering one or more than one proposed constitutional amendment, 94 A.L.R. 1510.

82 C.J.S. Statutes § 118.