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BOUCHER v. ENGSTROM

Nos. 2232 and 2249.

528 P.2d 456 (1974)

H. A. BOUCHER and the State of Alaska, Appellants, v. Elton E. ENGSTROM and George T. Fraley, Appellees. Deward HALSY et al., Appellants, v. Elton E. ENGSTROM and George T. Fraley, Appellees, v. H. A. BOUCHER and the State of Alaska, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 15, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Ray C. Preston, Asst. Atty. Gen., Juneau, for Boucher and the State.

Allan A. Engstrom, Engstrom & Evans, Juneau, for Engstrom and Fraley.

Murphy L. Clark, Hughes, Thorsness, Lowe, Gantz & Clark, Anchorage, for Halsy and others.

Before RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice, CONNOR, ERWIN, and FITZGERALD, Justices, and SCHULZ, Superior Court Judge.

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

Lieutenant Governor Boucher and the State of Alaska appeal from a superior court decision enjoining placement on the primary ballot of an initiative proposal to relocate the state capital.

The right to propose and enact laws by the initiative is reserved to the people of the State of Alaska by Article XI, Section 1 of the Alaska Constitution which provides:

The people may propose and enact laws by the initiative...

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