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Session 15818: 1910-10-17 09:00:00

The Committee receives a communication from George N. Boughton.

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Communication from Geo. N. Boughton

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Veterans Home, Cal., October 14, 1910

To the President of the Constitutional Convention, Phoenix, Arizona, Sir:

Permit me to call your attention to the advisableness (sic.) of providing in your new Constitution, that no law enacted by the legislature and approved by the Governor shall be declared void by any court except the Supreme Court and then only when all the Judges agree that the law is Unconstitutional.

Had such a provision been inserted into in the federal and all the State Constitutions, the country would have been spared many wrong and some disgraceful decisions.

If the power to annul the acts of the other two departments of the Government be given to the Judiciary is not reasonable that so great a power shall only be exercised by the whole Court and not by a part.

Respectfully, Geo. N. Boughton.

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