The Democratic Party Platform for 2018 opposed calling a state constitutional convention; the Republican Party Platform took no position.<\/p>\n
At the Democratic Party of Hawaii’s\u00a0annual state convention held between May 9 and May 18 , 2018, its Resolutions Committee rejected<\/a> by a 4-9-1 vote the following resolution calling for support of a state constitutional convention. See Report of the 2018 Convention Resolutions Committee<\/a>, May 19, 2018. The explanation for the no vote provided by the committee was: “<\/span>The committee could not reach a consensus on the purpose of such a convention. \u00a0\u201cJust because\u201d did not seem to have relevance.”<\/span><\/p>\n Supporting a Hawai\u02bbi Constitutional Convention in 2018 <\/b><\/p>\n Whereas<\/span>,<\/span><\/i> The most recent Hawai\u02bbi state constitutional convention was held in 1978, forty year ago; and <\/span><\/p>\n Whereas, The State of Hawai\u02bbi has changed dramatically in the last forty years; and<\/span><\/p>\n Whereas, A state constitutional convention would give power to the people to directly propose changes to the state constitution; and <\/span><\/p>\n Whereas, The Democratic Party of Hawai\u02bbi believes in importance of democracy and in the rule of the people; and<\/span><\/p>\n Whereas, Any proposed changes would have to be ratified by people of Hawai\u02bbi in a direct vote, providing a strong safeguard against attempts to change the Hawai\u02bbi state constitution in ways that would be detrimental to the public; therefore, be it <\/span><\/p>\n Resolved,<\/span><\/i> That the Democratic Party of Hawai\u02bbi supports holding a Constitutional Convention and urges its members to vote yes on authorizing a Constitutional Convention; and be it further <\/span><\/p>\n Ordered<\/span><\/i>, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to members of the Democratic Party who hold elected state political offices. <\/span><\/p>\n The Republican Party platform published after the Republican Party of Hawaii’s\u00a0annual state convention held between May 4 and May 6, 2018 didn’t mention the state constitutional convention issue.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary The Democratic Party Platform for 2018 opposed calling a state constitutional convention; the Republican Party Platform took no position. Democratic Party Platform At the Democratic Party of Hawaii’s\u00a0annual state convention held between May 9 and May 18 , 2018, its Resolutions Committee rejected by a 4-9-1 vote the following resolution calling for support of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-816","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/816\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.concon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Republican Party Platform<\/h3>\n