Stand Up for Democracy v. Secretary of State

PROLOGUE

Although to many the present dispute over font size may seem to be “much ado about nothing much” and a debate concerning a mere “technicality,” in which there may be only a “dime’s width” of difference between what is required of petitions by the law and what is actually contained in the petitions before the Court, a considerably larger issue is implicated: how faithful must the branch of government that interprets the law be to the language adopted by the branch of government that enacts that law? It is important to bear in mind that the very same constitutional provision that…