Clark v. Jordan

I dissent. In my view the majority opinion reverses the rule of liberal construction which has heretofore been applied uniformly by this court to the end that the right to submit proposed legislation directly to the people should be preserved, and substitutes in its stead a strict rule of construction, which, if applied in the future, w’ill mark a decisive step in the opposite direction from the course in which this court has been moving in its approach to the initiative system of lawmaking. Hyper-technical and captious reasons should not be regarded as affording sufficient ground for…