What is the test for determining the meaning of a constitutional provision?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. City of Los Angeles, 267 Cal.Rptr. 589, 50 Cal.3d 402, 787 P.2d 996 (Cal. 1990):
Our sole task in deciding the issue before us is to determine the meaning of the governing constitutional provision. In approaching this task, we start with established principles of construction, applicable to statutes and constitutional provisions alike. (County of Fresno v. Malmstrom (1979) 94 Cal.App.3d 974, 979, 156 Cal.Rptr. 777; see Lungren v. Deukmejian (1988) 45 Cal.3d 727, 735, 248 Cal.Rptr. 115, 755 P.2d 299.) "[I]n arriving at the meaning of a [constitutional provision], consideration
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