How have the courts interpreted the dates on a petition in the context of a constitutional amendment?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Dodge v. Free, 108 Cal.Rptr. 311, 32 Cal.App.3d 436 (Cal. App. 1973):
In support of the last assertion, petitioners cite Whittemore v. Seydel, 74 Cal.App.2d 109, 168 P.2d 212. The cited case dealt with a provision in the statutes covering the referendum of a municipal ordinance. The provision required that the circulator of the petition state in his verifying affidavit the dates between which the signatures were placed. The court held the provision, already then repealed, to be in conflict with the Constitution. The court also said the earliest and latest dates appearing on the petition would show the dates between which the signatures had been placed on the petition.
Article 23, section 1 of the California Constitution provides in part:
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