JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Republican-controlled Missouri Legislature is set to deliver on a long-held GOP promise to make it harder to change the state constitution.

In particular, a measure offered up during the second extraordinary session of the year would make it significantly harder to change Missouri’s constitution through an initiative petition.

Currently, a simple majority of votes statewide is the threshold to change the constitution. Under the proposal that passed through the Missouri House, a change to the constitution via the ballot would require a majority of voters in each of the state’s eight congressional districts.

“We've had 60 constitutional changes that have happened in the last 20 years,” said the bill sponsor, State Rep. Ed Lewis, R-Moberly. “Some of those initiati

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