Court Opinion

ID: 9628688
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:29:19.313001+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:13:35.703006
License: Public Domain

Finley, J.
(concurring) — I have signed the majority opinion, but add a brief comment which seems pertinent as well as appropriate.
First, this appeal involves a simple constitutional amendment. I am convinced that, at least in the present instance, we should not borrow cases involving a rule of construction from other jurisdictions to engraft upon the above-mentioned simple constitutional amendment a judicially conceived limitation, which is certainly less than obvious from an examination of the language of the amendment; second, resolution of the instant problem per either the dissenting or the majority view involves a special process of logic applied by lawyers and judges in the interpretation of language. Hence, the dissent’s allusion in re noses, tents, and camels tempts an admittedly somewhat strained, if not corny, rewrite of an old saw; namely, that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t toss about camels.
For the foregoing reasons, and for those stated in the majority opinion, I fully concur with the majority.