Voting Guide to the Ballot Propositions (Abridged). As anyone who remembers their Buchanan & Tullock can tell you, constitutions are supposed to be the uber-law by which society governs itself. The are the civic compact. As such, they should only be changed if a broad consensus of society agrees to the change. That is why they should be hard to amend.

Then you have the Arizona Constitution which can be changed by a simple 50% +1 vote of whoever shows up to the polls on a given election day. Or in other words, in 220 years of its existence, the U.S. Constitution has been amended 27 times, meanwhile there are 8 proposed changes to the Arizona Constitution this year alone.

The conscientious voter should vote against all the proposed amendments on the grounds that he or she should not abet a poor governing practice by altering the state's basic document willy-nilly on the basis of whatever political winds are blowing in a particular season.

That takes care of propositions 100-107. Now when it comes to the rest of the propositions, the prudent voter should remember that thanks to the Voter Protection Act, propositions passed into law are even more difficult to alter than the constitution. So if what seems like a good idea now turns out later to be a mistake later on because it created an expensive new entitlement or gave a hunting license to packs of wilding lawyers, we are pretty hosed. Consequently, the prudent voter should vote against the remaining ballot propositions.

That was easy.