CL, As you point out, the courts decide  ultimate "constitutionality", not the legislature or the executive.  Regardless of the issue, with an initiative you get one shot to word your law to pass this judicial scrutiny.  Given an issue as complex as this, your chances of accomplishing that are about the same as a snowball in you know where. Now we have just spent another $1 million on this exercise in futility.  Also, the legislature and executive branches are often keen to erode this petition power as was seen in the Cruise Ship Initiative (another attempt to repair a watch with a sledgehammer). Perhaps this same fate awaits Ballot Measure 1 which by consolidating and merging government data bases might be seen as a violation of the Constitutional right to privacy granted  to Alaskans in Article 1 Section 22 (Right to Privacy) of the State Constitution.