North Dakota voters will consider a constitutional school-meals measure on November 3. It would require public school districts, public schools and public charter schools to offer one free breakfast and one free lunch each school day to enrolled students. Eligible participating schools would receive mandatory state reimbursement after maximizing available federal funding, and if lawmakers could not identify another funding source, reimbursement would come from Legacy Fund earnings. The policy question therefore includes both whether universal school meals should be publicly funded and whether that commitment belongs in the state constitution rather than ordinary legislation and budgeting. School meals affect a child's day in a very immediate way, but a constitutional guarantee is a much bigger commitment than one year's lunch budget. I want to separate the question of whether meals should be available to everyone from the question of how permanently the state should lock in that promise.