On June 6th, 1978, California voters delivered a shock wave, not just in California, but throughout America. Proposition 13 reduced property taxes by more than half and imposed other restrictions on government’s ability to extract money from citizens and businesses. Despite Prop. 13’s victory with 64.8 percent of the vote, tax-and-spend progressives immediately filed a lawsuit directly in the California Supreme Court seeking to invalidate the new measure. Fortunately (and perhaps bowing to public sentiment) the court rejected the lawsuit against a variety of constitutional arguments. However, it wasn’t long before new, more limited, legal attacks against Prop. 13 began...