Missouri Republicans have been making the case for years that our state constitution is getting hijacked by out-of-state interests. “Our constitution,” he said, “shouldn’t be the victim of out-of-state special interests who spend millions to deceive voters and pass out-of-touch policies.” Missourians — decent people with jobs and kids and no particular interest in reading a 30-page, proposed constitutional amendment — get talked into things. On the same ballot was Amendment 1, renewing the one-tenth-cent sales tax that pays for state parks and soil and water conservation. So on the same trip to the polls, Missouri voters gave one sales tax amendment 82% support and another 16%.