Goldston v. State

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I respectfully dissent from Section IV of the majority opinion. I believe the Governor acted within the Governor’s constitutional authority in allocating monies from the Trust Fund to be used for General Fund expenditures in order to avoid a budget deficit. I concur in the result for the remainder of the majority opinion. I would fully affirm the ruling of the trial court.

Questions of constitutional construction are in the main governed by the same general principles which control in ascertaining the meaning of all written instruments, and “the fundamental principle of constitutional…