Constitution, Art. IV, Part Third, §23 is repealed.

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Constitution, Art. VIII, Part First, §1 is amended to read:

Section 1. State and towns to support public schools of uniform and high-quality; duty of Legislature. A Because a general diffusion of the advantages of education being is essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people; to promote this important object, the Legislature are is both authorized, and it shall be their duty and obligated to require, the several towns to make that: suitable provision, at their own expense, for the support and maintenance of public schools; and it be made for the support and maintenance of public schools at the expense of the State and its municipalities; each child have reasonable access to suitable educational opportunities and to programs of uniformly high quality; and the burden of support for public schools be equitably allocated among regions, citizens and businesses of the State.__It shall further be their duty to encourage and suitably endow, from time to time, as the circumstances of the people may authorize, all academies, colleges and seminaries of learning within the State; provided, that no donation, grant or endowment shall at any time be made by the Legislature to any literary institution now established, or which may hereafter be established, unless, at the time of making such endowment, the Legislature of the State shall have the right to grant any further powers to alter, limit or restrain any of the powers vested in any such literary institution, as shall be judged necessary to promote the best interests thereof.

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Constitution, Art. IX, §8, as enacted by CR 1999, c. 2, is repealed.

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Constitutional referendum procedure; form of question; effective date. Resolved: That the municipal officers of this State shall notify the inhabitants of their respective cities, towns and plantations to meet, in the manner prescribed by law for holding a statewide election, at a statewide election, on the Tuesday following the first Monday of November following the passage of this resolution, to vote upon the ratification of the amendment proposed in this resolution by voting upon the