In re New Hampshire Bar Ass'n

Because I believe that we should decide constitutional issues only when necessary and that the issue of the constitutionality of RSA 311:7-g is not ripe for judicial review, I respectfully dissent. In my view, the better course is to refrain from determining the constitutionality of RSA 311:7-g until we know the results of the unification vote.

Because the judiciary is but one of the three equal branches of government, “[r]igorous adherence to the narrow scope of the judicial *122function is especially demanded in controversies that arouse appeals to the Constitution.” Youngstown Co. v. Sawyer,…