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Claudine Mulard
California is experiencing a period of crisis and some accuse its Constitution, which was already inflated when it was ratified in 1879 and has been expanded with each new electoral ballot. Indeed, through popular initiatives the Golden State electors have kept adding constitutional amendments. Today, they agree that their political system is jammed but disagree about the possible remedies: should they engage in a piecemeal revision of the Constitution or dare to engage in the writing of a new text, better adapted to a large modern state?
La Californie est en crise, et on accuse la Constitution, déjà volubile lors de sa ratification en 1879, mais qui gonfle à chaque scrutin électoral. Car les électeurs du Golden State s’adonnent au référendum d’initiative populaire et additionnent les amendements constitutionnels. Aujourd’hui, ils admettent que leur système politique est enrayé, mais divergent quant aux remèdes :
faut-il réviser la Constitution au coup par coup, ou oser rédiger un nouveau texte, mieux adapté au grand État moderne ?
