Op-Ed: Claremont Is Judicial Usurpation, Not Constitutional Duty

Letter: Claremont’s school crisis Is a constitutional emergency

Claremont’s school crisis Is a constitutional emergency

Murray: Claremont Is Judicial Usurpation, Not Constitutional Duty - Granite Grok

Andru Volinsky’s op-ed about Claremont’s financial crisis assumes a premise that is flatly wrong. The post Murray: Claremont Is Judicial Usurpation, Not Constitutional Duty appeared first on Granite Grok.

Op-Ed: Claremont Is Judicial Usurpation, Not Constitutional Duty

By TOM MURRAY Andru Volinsky’s recent op-ed about Claremont’s financial crisis assumes a premise that is flatly wrong: that the New Hampshire Constitution requires the state to tax and fund local schools. It does not. Our Constitution is clear. Part II, Article 5 authorizes the legislature to levy taxes only when they are “proportional and reasonable” and only for the support of government, defense, and protection of the people. Education is not…