sleepynut wrote:
Hi experts,
From this question,there are several steps to establish amendments to the constitution : 1) gather 100,000 signature 2) initiate a national referendum 3)successfully vote to amend the constitution
Option E tells us that Swiss voter are familiar with referenda.Just that,how it can be interpret that the government process will be long?
That the precedure takes a long time is already given in the passage ("...over a period of 18 months"). In fact this part is the premise of the argument.
Premise: Procedure of amendment takes a long time.
Conclusion: Thus a lot of time is spent for amendment.
The above premise--> concluison would be invalid if there are no (or few) amendment requests - in that case, although it remains true that the procedure takes a long time, actually time would not be spent on the proceudre, because there are no (or few) amendment requests.
Option E is the required assumption that there are in fact many amendment requests, and thus a lot of time is actually required to be spent on amendments.
(Compare with the following:
Premise: I take a long time to read a book.
Conclusion: I soend a long time reading books.
If I do not read books at all, then my argument would be invalid.
Thus,
Assumption: There are quite a few books that I read.)
Is A only wrong because it talks about referenda in general not the ones requiring amendment?