Court Opinion

ID: 6739104
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 23:20:39.37059+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:54.038873
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Christianson, Oh. J.
(dissenting). It is the duty of the secretary of state to certify that bonds issued by the state pursuant to law and within the debt limit have been so issued and are within such limit. But it is equally his duty to refrain from so certifying if the certificate would be false. " The secretary of state is sworn to support the Constitution. He would violate his oath of office if he certified that bonds sought to be issued in .excess of the constitutional debt limit were within such limit. The debt limit of the state was fixed in § 182 of the Constitution. The bonds involved in this proceeding are undisputably in excess of such debt limit, unless that section has been amended. The bonds involved purport to be issued by authority of an amendment to § 182. Such amendment was involved in State ex rel. Twichell v. Hall, ante, 459, 111 N. W. 213, and State ex rel. Byerly v. State Canvassers, ante, 126, 172 N. W. 80. And for the reasons stated in my dissenting .opinions in those cases, I believe that § 182 has not been amended and that the' debt limit remains as originally fixed therein.