A Missouri court has rejected a request to let voters decide in November whether to make it harder for lawmakers to change laws enacted by citizen initiatives. The measure had proposed some of the nation’s strongest protections for citizen-approved initiatives, including a requirement that 80% of lawmakers would have to vote to repeal or amend a such laws in order to change them. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins had rejected the initiative petition despite thousands of signatures for it. He asserted the measure making it harder for lawmakers to change initiatives approved by the voters violated the state constitution by containing multiple subjects. A Cole County judge upheld that decision, in effect keeping the measure off the ballot.