Starr v. Hagglund

DIMOND, Justice.

A schedule of transitional measures appended to the Alaska constitution provides in section 20 that “The capital of the State of Alaska shall be at Juneau.” The appellants, Starr and Bailey, are sponsors of an initiative petition to move the capital from its present location to some place in Western Alaska.1 At the instance of ap-*317pellees, the Secretary of State was enjoined by the superior court from placing the proposition on the ballot for submission to the voters of Alaska. The basis of the court’s action was its determination that section 20 could not be amended or revised…