 | Elections - 1991 - 1000 pages
...and accumulated savings. In fact, the constitution limited state government debt to $100,000, except "to repel invasion, suppress insurrection or defend the state in time of war". Wisconsin's savings program for postwar construction, begun in 1943, supplemented by generous boosts... | |
 | Elections - 2005 - 1008 pages
...bonding for public purposes. SECTION 7. [As amended April 1992] (1) The legislature may also borrow money to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the state in time of war; but the money thus raised shall be applied exclusively to the object for which the loan was authorized,... | |
 | Robert Smith Bader - Travel - 1988 - 264 pages
...constitutional provision that had permitted the government to borrow for internal improvements only "to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the state in time of war." The amended law permitted the state to defray the costs of 25 percent of county-road construction, but... | |
 | David R. Berman - Political Science - 1998 - 292 pages
...provision of the constitution (article 9, section 5), the state may borrow more than $350,000 only "to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the state in time of war." This severe restriction, suggesting a strong dislike of debt and a strong preference for pay-as-you-go... | |
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In addition to the above limited power to contract debts, the state may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the state in war ; but the money arising from the contracting of such debts shall be applied to the purpose for... 
