Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this newest attempt to confound democracy, another branch of government has entered the fray. The state referendum repealing rent control won't be able to take effect until the courts decide whether the conduct of the vote was constitutional, a Suffolk Country appellate judge ruled last Friday...
...principle, it is wrong to use the courts as a political weapon against the legitimate expression of the popular will. Testing the constitutionality of controversial new laws is important in upholding the checks and balances that keep our government functioning. However, constitutionality is not at stake in abolishing rent control, as attested by the fact that Cambridge has been without it in the past. Bringing the law to court in this instance is purely procedural--and political...
Furthermore, we believe the constitutional challenge to the conduct of the vote lacks serious merit. Those challenging the vote allege that the anti-rent control result must be disregarded because printed summaries of ballot questions were not provided on the ballots themselves...
...principle behind the restraining order was not consistently applied, focusing only on rent control. Armstrong's decision to single out rent control makes no sense. The reason for making an exception of the issue, according to Armstrong, was that allowing Question 9 to take effect would have negative consequences for residents in Cambridge, Boston and Brookline...
...judge to make his decisions based on pragmatic rather than constitutional or legal reasons has serious problems. One could argue that allowing rent control to remain in place has adverse consequences for those citizens forced to accept substandard rents for their property--even after the voters of the state found such a situation to be unjust...