Politics & Government
MacDonald: Tom Murray Challenges NH Education Tax Structure
At the center of the case is the Journal of the 1850 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention, chaired by Franklin Pierce.
Windham taxpayer and former Windham School Board member and occasional 'Grok contributor', Tom Murray has filed a constitutional challenge to New Hampshire’s education property-tax structure. He argues that previously unconsidered constitutional history undermines the foundation of the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s landmark Claremont school-funding decisions and their judicial progeny.
At the center of the case is the Journal of the 1850 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention, chaired by Franklin Pierce. The Journal was never printed at the time and was not published by the Secretary of State until 2005 — twelve years after Claremont I (1993) and eight years after Claremont II (1997) were decided.
Ironically (?), the 1850 Convention confronted the same problem — and reached the opposite Conclusion.
