Should the People Appointed to Interpret the State Constitution Be Allowed to Interpret the State Constitution?
New Hampshire courts have ruled that the state's school funding system is unconstitutional, and has given the legislature until July to remedy this. Predictably, some anti-tax advocates are making noise about amending the state constitution to bar the state's supreme court from ruling on this matter. A new Concord Monitor poll takes the public's pulse on this question. The good news: 53 percent of New Hampshire residents think it would be a bad idea to take away the court's ability to monitor the constitutionality of education funding. The bad news: 40 percent think it's a great idea.
