Court Opinion

ID: 9696081
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 18:35:45.702935+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:18.295846
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Knutson, Justice
(concurring specially).
In deference to the opinions of a majority of my colleagues I reluctantly concur in the result. I can see no rational relationship between the two sections that would be amended by the adoption of this proposal. Obviously the people should have a right to express their opinions on each separately. I fear that what we are doing is to nullify Minn. Const, art. 14, § 1. However, amendments of whole articles of our constitution7 have gone unchallenged in the past and rather than jeopardize what the people have heretofore approved it seems the lesser of two evils to uphold what is here proposed.

See, for instance, amendment of art. 6, proposed by L. 1955, c. 881, and adopted on November 6, 1956, which deals with the judiciary.