People ex rel. Attorney General v. Cassiday

It had not been my intention to give a written expression of my views upon the very important questions under consideration, but simply to concur in the ultimate conclusions reached in the opinion of Mr. Justice Bailey, holding that art. XX, in its entirety, is a part of the constitution as announced by the late Chief Justice Steele in the case of The People v. Sours, 31 Colo. 369.

I am unable to appreciate or conceive wherein the people, in their sovereign capacity, have not the right to say that the power may be vested in the people of the city and county of Denver, to designate the persons…