This is my fear as well. As a Californian who's looking to move to Texas at some point in the future, I really hope the people leaving aren't taking "California values" to Texas with them.
But more seriously can you expand more on this "almost everything is written into the constitution"? Is this a back-door way of getting Swiss-style direct democracy. Skimming wikipedia it seems that amedments are passed by a referendum approving a legislative proposal (and this processes has happened hundreds of times).
if this is the only practical way of creating legislation, then you basically have the people as a third house of the legislature.
Regular laws don't have to pass the same gauntlet, but because the constitution is so expansive nearly every new law has to get it amended to prevent a contradiction.
Prop 13 is a constitutional amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...
CA is virtually identical to Texas in the sense it has an extensive constitution that is almost impossible to change.
So, be careful what you wish for.
> At 310,296 words,[1] the document is 12 times longer than the average state constitution, 44 times longer than the U.S. Constitution, and is the longest[2] and most amended[3] constitution still operative anywhere in the world.
Conform? Barely. Fully adapt? Hell no. I hope my parents are the exception though, for Texas' sake. This place is way better than California (I visit plenty of family who still live there) and I would hate for it to be gutted in such fashion.
I wonder if you can share what that looks like?
I've lived in California most of my life, but I lived in Georgia, Arkansas, Mississppi and Missouri for 16 years.