Constitutional change would protect initiatives

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HELENA, Mont. - The ongoing battle voters and their ballot initiatives have with elected lawmakers is about to get more intense.

Nearly every time voters have used the ballot box to change state law with an initiative in recent years the Montana Legislature has later at least tried to change it or abolish it altogether.

Most recently, the Montana Legislature completely revamped the voter-approved medical marijuana law — an effort that is now being challenged in court and with another separate initiative effort.

But a new group wants to make it much harder for the legislature to tinker with initiatives — an idea that has already caught the attention of leading state legislators.

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