Beals v. Pickerel Lake Sanitary District

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[¶32] Article III, Section 1 of the South Dakota Constitution provides:

[T]he people expressly reserve to themselves the right to propose measures ... and also the right to require that any laws which the Legislature may have enacted shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of the state before going into effect....

(emphasis added). As this court stated nearly seventy years ago, “This language is plain, and leaves no room for construction either strict or liberal.... The power granted to the Legislature is restricted and limited by the right of the people to ultimately adopt or reject…