People ex rel. Mills Water-Works Co. v. Forrest

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the environmental protection amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution, found in article 1, section 27, was not self-executing and distinguishing that section from the remaining sections of article 1
• deciding how power granted to the commonwealth is shared equally among the branches to maintain a “balance of powers”
• opining that, after ratification of the ERA, “for the first time, at least insofar as the state constitution is concerned, the Commonwealth has been given power to act in areas of purely aesthetic or historic concern[]”
• Per O’Brien, J. with one Justice concurring, two justices concurring specially and one Justice concurring in the result
• article I, section 27 is not self-executing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).