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dickthegrouch

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3. Isn't water a fundamental element to life?

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Sat Dec 28, 2024, 01:13 PM

Dec 28

“Although it is an admirable goal, we know of no provision that is authorized in either general law or specifically granted in the State Constitution, nor has one been provided by Speak Up, which specifically provides a citizen the right to have a body of water that ‘flows, exists in its natural form, is free of pollution, and which maintains a healthy ecosystem,'” the judges wrote.

I thought the Declaration of Independence (without which the Constitution can’t exist) guaranteed the right to life among other things.
It seems exceptionally short sighted of those judges not to be able to connect the constitution to a fundamental right to clean water.

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