Court Opinion

ID: 7624992
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 18:07:46.534235+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:25:07.309524
License: Public Domain

DENNIS, Judge,
concurring.
I join in the majority opinion but write to add this observation. Under our system of government with limited powers, “[i]t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch 175, 177, 2 L.Ed. 60 (1803) (Marshall, C.J.). Within the judicial department, this court is the final arbiter of the meaning of the state constitution and laws. Therefore, after this court has said what a law means, legislative action adopting a different meaning necessarily effects a change and not an interpretation of that law.