Spier v. Baker
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Tulare County. Wheaton A. Gray, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtGaroutte, J.
This is an action to determine the constitutionality of a primary election law, passed at the last session of the legislature, and approved March 13, 1897. It is contended upon the part of the various counsel assailing this law that its enforcement will be an expensive burden upon the people; that, under the guise of a great reform, a system of elections has been devised which, by its expensive and complicated procedure, greatly increases the tendency to place the political life of the state in the hands of those who make politics a profession; that the whole theory of the law is wrong in…
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