County of Apache v. Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• governing principle of constitutional construction is to give effect to framers' intent and purpose
• governing principle of constitutional construction is to give effect to framers’ intent and purpose
• “The governing principle of constitutional construction is to give effect to the intent and purpose of the framers of the constitutional provision and of the people who adopted it.”
• \The governing principle of constitutional construction is to give effect to the intent and purpose of the framers of the constitutional provision and of the people who adopted it.\
• “nearly contemporaneous legislative act interpreting a new constitutional provision will, after acquiescence in this interpretation by the interested parties for a period of years, be highly persuasive as the correct interpretation”
• “nearly contemporaneous legislative act interpreting a new constitutional provision will, after acquiescence in this interpretation by the interested parties for a period of years, be highly persuasive as the correct interpretation”

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