In Switzerland, one of Europe's smallest nations, amendments to the co

In Switzerland, one of Europe's smallest nations, amendments to the constitution can only be initiated after a successful vote on a national referendum. In order to initiate a referendum, a citizen must merely collect 100,000 voters' signatures, in support of a given issue, over a period of 18 months. Clearly, the Swiss government must be spending a lot of time amending the country's constitution.

Which of the following premises, if true, best supports the conclusion above?



P.S. : i opted for option B but now I think E has an edge over B. Otherwise option B and E are very similar.

Question Stem says that amendment to the constitution can be initiated after a successful vote on national referendum. And a referendum can be initiated by collecting 100,000 voter's signature in support of issues.
Conclusion : Swiss government must be spending a lot of time amending the country's constitution which means A major portion of the period of Swiss government is utilized in constitution amendment. Now lets get down to options.

A. Swiss citizens initiate many referenda every year.
This doesn't tell whether refrenda is about constitutional amendment or not.

B. It is easy for a citizen to collect 100,000 signatures for a constitutional amendment within 18 months.
Citizens can easily collect 100,000 signatures for constitutional amendment within 18 months which means a lot of referendum can be initiated by the citizens but citizens do it or not is not clear. If the citizens do raise a lots of referendum regarding constitutional amendment, surely it is going to take a lots of time of swiss govt. Though this is a strong contender of the correct answer, we will check other options. If there is no better option we can go for this one.

C. The Swiss government spends much more time on constitutional amendments than governments of other countries do.
It spends much more time than other countries but it is not clear that whether it spends a lots of time or not which a major portion of swiss govt. governance time.

D. All referenda must be initiated by Swiss citizens over 18 years old.
This is out of scope. Even if this is the case a lot or very less referenda may be raised.

E. Referenda requiring constitutional amendments are both frequent and popular with Swiss voters.
Now this is one step ahead of Option B. Option B states that people can easily raise Referenda requiring constitutional amendment. This option says that the referenda is actually raised and it is popular with swiss voters. SO this option is better and one step ahead of Option B. Hence this is the correct answer


Answer E