Court Opinion

ID: 9544689
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:59:40.371699+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:13:26.405557
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Weaver, C. J.
(concurring) — I have signed the foregoing opinion. I wish to point out, however, that Art. IX, § 4, of the Washington constitution, which provides
“Sectarian Control or Influence Prohibited. All schools maintained or supported wholly or in part by the public funds shall be forever free from sectarian control or influence.”,
is more proscriptive than the other constitutional provisions discussed in the opinion.
That it is so is the result of deliberate action by the constitutional convention of 1899. It appears from the journal of the Washington State Constitutional Convention, 1889, p. 335 (unpublished; the original is in the office of the Secretary of State), that J. Z. Moore, a member of the convention and a lawyer from Spokane, moved to strike the words “or influence” from the section. The motion lost 39 to 11.
December 16, 1959. Petition for rehearing denied.