Northshore School District No. 417 v. Kinnear

— Education is a bulwark of this democracy. A system of free public schools, like a system of open courts, not only helps make life worth living but sustains our long-cherished ideas of- individual. liberty. Where the riátión’s constitution provides for a system of open courts, however, it makes no mention of free public schools. The people of this state found this oversight- unacceptable *687in 1889 when they brought Washington Territory into the Union. Not only did they establish a judicial system, but at the same time they provided for a system of free public schools, imposing then and there a…