Show I. I I I d Disrespect for the Law LawI I HEN ILiN the commonwealth of f Utah was erected the citizens of th the thet t I W. W WHEN territory through their representatives cs in the tho constitutional I convention selected th the fundamental principles upon which I their state government go should bo be based d. d These sc c w were re written into the I state stat constitution which after approval al b by the people and acceptance by the national government been became the organic law of the commonwealth commonwealth commonwealth common common- wealth binding alike upon the three departments of government and upon the people From th the day that it b became bc came operative until the tho present every member of the executive of the legislative and of the judicial branch of the government has taken his solemn oath to uphold uphold uphold up up- hold support defend and obey that constitution In establishing the lB law tho the people indicated therein those I powers in which latitude would be permitted to lo the various departments depart depart- ments meats and those others erS er'S in which specific duties were imposed ant and from which there could b bev be no deviation As the fundamental law v o of the state these definite principles principle cannot be changed by legislative c I enactment judicial whim or executive option Those constitutional I provisions which are re mandatory that declare certain things II shall be done and those that are arc prohibitory which de declare certain things H shall not be done are binding upon legislator judge and governor I and can be bo changed chanted only by bJ the people themselves through a constitutional constitutional amendment I Yet the people are constantly treated to the spectacle of the j I legislative ve the time judicial or the executive departments of government I calmly ignoring setting aside as is 5 of no moment the time solemn so injunctions injunctions t ons of that con constitution Ever Eyer since sinca statehood each succeeding state I Legislature has broken the constitutional provision which limits it its session to sixty days an offense it has not mitigated b by the hypocritical hypocritical hypo hypo- critical pretense of stopping the clock on the time sixtieth th day Its recent I effort to b be virtuous by handcuffing itself with a law that would I compel adjournment on the tho last constitutional day merely added to tc toI I the gayety of the occasion without giving any assurances of belated I obedience to the only authority it mu must mut t recognize |