Granite Staters calling for state constitutional change to secure communities’ local self-governing rights.
A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 4th, 2019.
CONCORD, NH: This week, State House Representative Ellen Read of Rockingham District 17 reintroduced a rights-based state constitutional amendment. CACR 8 guarantees the authority of people in towns throughout New Hampshire to enact local laws protecting individual rights, communities, and the natural environment, free from state and corporate interference that would diminish those rights.
The NH Community Rights Amendment in 2018
The 2018 New Hampshire House debated and voted on the NH Community Rights Amendment, which received one-third of the legislators’ support. This was the first Community Rights state constitutional amendment considered by a state legislature, signifying the growing support for Community Rights that is building across the U.S. MORE…