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Concerning Article 8 (Education) of the 1851 Constitution:

The original Constitution of 1816 at Article 9 spoke highly of the importance of education in Indiana, but never funded it. This was remedied in the Constitution of 1851 at Article 8.

The precise methods of funding these 'common schools' was carefully laid out in Section 2 of Article 8 of the 1851 Constitution. All emphasis is mine.

Section 2. The Common School fund shall consist of: the Congressional Township fund, and the lands belonging thereto;

The Surplus Revenue fund;

The Saline fund and the lands belonging thereto;

The Bank Tax fund, and the fund arising from the one hundred and fourteenth section of the charter of the State Bank of Indiana;

The fund to be derived from the sale of county seminaries, and the moneys and property heretofore held for such Seminaries; from the fines assessed for breaches of the penal laws of the State; and for all forfeitures which may accrue;

All lands and other estate which shall escheat to the State, for want of heirs or kindred entitled to the inheritance;

All lands that have been, or may hereafter be, granted to the State, where no special purpose is expressed in the grant, and the proceeds of the sales thereof; including the proceeds of the sales of the swamp lands, granted to the State of Indiana by the act of Congress of the twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, after deducting the expense of selection and draining the same;

Taxes on the property of corporations, that may be assessed by the General Assembly for common school purposes.

Yet, in Indiana, support for the 'common schools' consist of about 50 percent or more of the property tax bill of private home owners.

There is nothing in the Indiana Constitution that permits the taxation of private homes for the support of our schools. People in Indiana loose their homes for inability to pay the property tax.

Indyaries (talk) 09:31, 24 November 2008 (UTC)