Talk:Constitution of New Hampshire

A fact from Constitution of New Hampshire appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 November 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that New Hampshire citizens have the right to begin a revolution under state law?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/November.

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Right of revolution

Has the right of revolution ever been excercised? If so, what did courts or civil authorities have to say about it? Cmadler 21:02, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Here are some citations from the Annotations of Part I, Article 10:

The political philosophy embodied in the article was adhered to by the Colony of New Hampshire before it became an independent state, and was incorporated in the common law of the state. See Trustees of Exeter Academy v. Exeter, 90 N.H. 472 (1940).

Legislature, in pending bill, was proposing to create a tax exemption for electric utility property, rather than directly raising tax revenue to subsidize private purposes, and even if exemption were seen as a form of direct grant, public benefit gained by legislation, in form of increased competition and customer choice, was sufficient to ensure its compliance with principle of equality inherent in part I, article 10 of New Hampshire Constitution. Opinion of Justices, 144 N.H. 374 (1999).

This provision does not preclude the legislature from proscribing activities looking to the overthrow of government by force or violence. Nelson v. Wyman, 99 N.H. 33 (1954).

The article has also been used by those who felt the state's property tax system/manner of collecting taxes for education was unconstitutional and unjust in recent years. Assawyer 06:21, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, this fact was on Did You Know a few days ago thanks to yours truly. Karmafist 00:42, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Free State Project

Though I sympathize with the members of the Free State Project who have moved here, the fact that an 800-member fringe group "[holds] in high regard" Article 10 is not notable and is advocacy. Spike-from-NH (talk) 11:26, 3 October 2011 (UTC) And hearing no objection, I've deleted it. Spike-from-NH (talk) 21:36, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Amendments

Does anyone know how many and when amendments have been made to the New Hampshire Constitution? L Hamm 19:08, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's kinda harder to tell the number of amendments with the NH Constitution since they're re-written directly into the body of the document instead of enumerated separately as an appendix (as in the US Constitution), but I guess I could try to count the number of times "amended" appears in footnotes, and then try to determine which footnotes actually refer to the same amendments based on their year... Cooljeanius (talk) (contribs) 04:25, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]