individuals. a. Article I, section 2 In his reply brief, Plaintiff has claimed that Article I, section 2 of the North Dakota Constitution gives him the right to petition on the private property of Super Target of Grand Forks. Article I, Section 2 reads, “All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection, security and benefit of the people, and they have a right to alter or reform the same whenever the public good may require.” Not a single North Dakota court has ever interpreted this section as a right to petition on private property, but rather have interpreted it as a limit on state intervention in the right of the people to have a Republican form of government. See, e.g., State ex rel. Agnew v. Schneider, 253 N.W.2d 184, 187 (N.D.1977) (<HOLDING>); State ex rel. Brunette v. Sutton, 71 N.D.
holding that under the eighth amendment to the united states constitution the government may not execute a mentally retarded person recognizing that oath taken to honor state constitution makes it the justices duty to apply the state constitution when it does not conflict with the federal constitution holding the exclusion did not violate the equal protection clause of the wyoming constitution or the fourteenth amendment to the united states constitution holding that the north dakota constitution is a document of limitations upon the state government unlike the united states constitution which is a grant of power to the federal government holding that the contracts clause article i section 10 clause 1 to the united states constitution does not apply to the actions of the federal government