The Chamber Already Proved Measure 1 Wrong

The Greater North Dakota Chamber and other powerful lobbyists want you to believe the North Dakota Constitution is too easy to change. Funny thing is, they already tried to pass Measure 1 themselves. They failed. The front door was locked in 2022 Let’s go back to 2021. The Chamber started recruiting sponsors for an initiated measure to rewrite how we amend our constitution. Their pitch? Our founding document faces an amendment every election, much of it pushed by out-of-state money, and something had to be done. So a group called Protect North Dakota’s Constitution hit the road. The measure would have required 60% of the vote to pass future constitutional amendments and limited each one to a single subject. Sound familiar? It should. They had money. Lots of it. The committee raised about $559,000, and the single biggest check came from the Greater North Dakota Chamber, at $180,000. They needed 31,164 valid signatures from North Dakotans. They turned in 31,622. Then the Secretary of Sta