Martinez v. Kulongoski

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the distinction between a ‘revision’ and an ‘amendment’ ” “can properly involve quantitative and qualitative considerations” and that changes can be “so ‘fundamental’ and ‘far reaching’ as to effect a ‘revision’ ”
• discussing the distinction in the context of a voter-initiated ballot measure that added provisions to the state constitution
• explaining the burden that a party has in attempting to persuade a court to overturn a constitutional precedent
• explaining the burden that a party has in attempting to persuade a court to overturn a constitutional precedent
• articulating standard to overturn court’s constitutional precedent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).