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§ 1
Art.
Preamble
§ 1
Relations to the government of the United States
Art.
I
§ 2
Internal government and police
Art.
I
§ 3
Continuity of constitutional operation
Art.
I
§ 4
Representatives to Congress
Art.
I
§ 1
The state
Art.
II
§ 2
Powers of government in citizens
Art.
II
§ 3
Requisites of citizenship
Art.
II
§ 4
Equal representation
Art.
II
§ 5
Provisions regarding property
Art.
II
§ 6
Treason, what constitutes — Penalty
Art.
II
§ 7
“Montani Semper Liberi” — State seal
Art.
II
§ 8
Writs, commissions, official bonds — Indictments
Art.
II
§ 1
Bill of rights
Art.
III
§ 2
Magistrates servants of people
Art.
III
§ 3
Rights reserved to people
Art.
III
§ 4
Writ of habeas corpus
Art.
III
§ 5
Excessive bail not required
Art.
III
§ 6
Unreasonable searches and seizures prohibited
Art.
III
§ 7
Freedom of speech and press guaranteed
Art.
III
§ 8
Relating to civil suits for libel
Art.
III
§ 9
Private property, how taken
Art.
III
§ 10
Safeguards for life, liberty and property
Art.
III
§ 11
Political tests condemned
Art.
III
§ 12
Military subordinate to civil power
Art.
III
§ 13
Right of jury trial
Art.
III
§ 14
Trials of crimes — Provisions in interest of accused
Art.
III
§ 15
Religious freedom guaranteed
Art.
III
§ 15a
Voluntary contemplation, meditation or prayer in schools
Art.
III
§ 16
Right of public assembly held inviolate
Art.
III
§ 17
Courts open to all — Justice administered speedily
Art.
III
§ 18
Conviction not to work corruption of blood or forfeiture
Art.
III
§ 19
Hereditary emoluments, etc., provided against
Art.
III
§ 20
Preservation of free government
Art.
III
§ 21
Jury service for women
Art.
III
§ 22
Right to keep and bear arms
Art.
III
§ 23
Protection against medically assisted suicide
Art.
III
§ 1
Election and officers
Art.
IV
§ 2
Mode of voting by ballot
Art.
IV
§ 3
Voter not subject to arrest on civil process
Art.
IV
§ 4
Persons entitled to hold office — Age requirements
Art.
IV
§ 5
Oath or affirmation to support the constitution
Art.
IV
§ 6
Provisions for removal of officials
Art.
IV
§ 7
General elections, when held — Terms of officials
Art.
IV
§ 8
Further provisions regarding state’s officers and agents
Art.
IV
§ 9
Impeachment of officials
Art.
IV
§ 10
Fighting of duels prohibited
Art.
IV
§ 11
Safeguards for ballots
Art.
IV
§ 12
Registration laws provided for
Art.
IV
§ 1
Division of powers
Art.
V
§ 1
The Legislature
Art.
VI
§ 2
Composition of Senate and House of Delegates
Art.
VI
§ 3
Senators and delegates — Terms of office
Art.
VI
§ 4
Division of state into senatorial districts
Art.
VI
§ 5
Senatorial districts designated
Art.
VI
§ 7
After census, delegate apportionment
Art.
VI
§ 8
Designation of delegate districts
Art.
VI
§ 9
Further apportionments
Art.
VI
§ 10
Arrangement of senatorial and delegate districts
Art.
VI
§ 11
Additional territory may be admitted into state
Art.
VI
§ 12
Senators and delegates required to be residents of districts
Art.
VI
§ 13
Eligibility to seat in Legislature
Art.
VI
§ 14
Bribery conviction forfeits eligibility
Art.
VI
§ 15
Senators and delegates not to hold civil office for profit
Art.
VI
§ 16
Oath of senators and delegates
Art.
VI
§ 17
Members of Legislature privileged from civil arrest
Art.
VI
§ 18
Time and place of assembly of Legislature
Art.
VI
§ 19
Convening of Legislature by governor
Art.
VI
§ 20
Seat of government
Art.
VI
§ 21
Provisions for assembling of Legislature other than at the seat of government
Art.
VI
§ 22
Length of legislative session
Art.
VI
§ 23
Concerning adjournment
Art.
VI
§ 24
Rules governing legislative proceedings
Art.
VI
§ 25
Authority to punish members
Art.
VI
§ 26
Provisions for undisturbed transaction of business
Art.
VI
§ 27
Accounting for state moneys
Art.
VI
§ 28
Origination of bills
Art.
VI
§ 29
Requirement for reading of bills
Art.
VI
§ 30
Acts to embrace but one object — Time of effect
Art.
VI
§ 31
How bills may be amended
Art.
VI
§ 32
“Majority” defined
Art.
VI
§ 33
Compensation and expenses of members
Art.
VI
§ 34
Distribution of laws and journals provided for –Contracts for printing
Art.
VI
§ 35
State not to be made defendant in any court
Art.
VI
§ 36
Lotteries; bingo; raffles; county option
Art.
VI
§ 37
Terms of office not to be extended after election
Art.
VI
§ 38
Salaries of officials cannot be increased during official terms
Art.
VI
§ 39
Local laws not to be passed in enumerated cases
Art.
VI
§ 39a
Home rule for municipalities
Art.
VI
§ 40
Limiting powers of court or judge
Art.
VI
§ 41
Each house to keep journal of proceedings
Art.
VI
§ 42
Appropriation bills to be specific
Art.
VI
§ 43
Board or court of registration of voters prohibited
Art.
VI
§ 44
Election of legislative, county and municipal officers
Art.
VI
§ 45
Bribery and attempt to bribe — Punishment
Art.
VI
§ 46
Manufacture and sale of liquor
Art.
VI
§ 47
Incorporation of religious denominations prohibited
Art.
VI
§ 48
Homestead exemption
Art.
VI
§ 49
Property of married woman
Art.
VI
§ 50
Plan of proportional representation
Art.
VI
§ 51
Budget and supplementary appropriation bills
Art.
VI
§ 52
Revenues applicable to roads
Art.
VI
§ 53
Forestry amendment
Art.
VI
§ 54
Continuity of government amendment
Art.
VI
§ 55
Revenues and properties applicable to fish and wildlife conservation
Art.
VI
§ 56
Revenues applicable to nongame wildlife resources in the state
Art.
VI
§ 57
No constitutional right to abortion
Art.
VI
§ 1
Executive department
Art.
VII
§ 2
Election
Art.
VII
§ 3
Certification of election returns — Contests
Art.
VII
§ 4
Eligibility
Art.
VII
§ 5
Chief executive — Powers
Art.
VII
§ 6
Governor’s message
Art.
VII
§ 7
Extraordinary legislative sessions
Art.
VII
§ 8
Governor to nominate certain officers
Art.
VII
§ 9
Recess vacancies — How filled
Art.
VII
§ 10
Governor’s power of removal
Art.
VII
§ 11
Executive may remit fines and forfeitures
Art.
VII
§ 12
Governor commander-in-chief of military forces
Art.
VII
§ 13
Official bond of state officers
Art.
VII
§ 14
Governor’s approval or disapproval of bills passed by the Legislature
Art.
VII
§ 15
Governor’s approval or disapproval of bills making appropriations of money
Art.
VII
§ 16
Vacancy in governorship, how filled
Art.
VII
§ 17
Vacancies in other executive departments
Art.
VII
§ 18
Executive heads to make reports
Art.
VII
§ 19
Salaries of Officials
Art.
VII
§ 1
Judicial power
Art.
VIII
§ 2
Supreme court of appeals
Art.
VIII
§ 3
Supreme court of appeals; jurisdiction and powers; officers and employees; terms
Art.
VIII
§ 4
Writ of error, supersedeas and appeal; scope and form of decisions
Art.
VIII
§ 5
Circuit courts
Art.
VIII
§ 6
Circuit court; jurisdiction, authority and power
Art.
VIII
§ 7
General provisions relating to justices, judges, and magistrates
Art.
VIII
§ 8
Censure, temporary suspension and retirement of justices, judges and magistrates; removal
Art.
VIII
§ 9
Clerks of circuit courts
Art.
VIII
§ 10
Magistrate courts
Art.
VIII
§ 11
Municipal courts
Art.
VIII
§ 12
Issuance and execution of writs, warrants and process; admission to bail
Art.
VIII
§ 13
Parts of existing law effective. Except as otherwise provided in this article, such parts of the common law, and of the laws of this state as are in force on the effective date of this article and are not repugnant thereto, shall be and continue the law of this state until altered or repealed by the Legislature
Art.
VIII
§ 14
Pending causes; transfer of causes; records
Art.
VIII
§ 15
Offices phased out; effective date of article; certain provisions to be operable at time specified; effect of article on certain provisions of constitution
Art.
VIII
§ 16
Family Courts
Art.
VIII
§ 1
County organization
Art.
IX
§ 2
Constables, coroners and overseers of the poor
Art.
IX
§ 3
Sheriffs
Art.
IX
§ 4
Malfeasance and misfeasance in office
Art.
IX
§ 5
Commissioning of officers not otherwise provided for
Art.
IX
§ 6
Compensation — Deputies
Art.
IX
§ 7
Conservators of the peace
Art.
IX
§ 8
Formation of new counties
Art.
IX
§ 9
County commissions
Art.
IX
§ 10
Terms of office of county commissioners
Art.
IX
§ 11
Powers of county commissions
Art.
IX
§ 12
Clerk of county commission
Art.
IX
§ 13
Reformation of county commissions
Art.
IX
§ 1
Taxation and finance
Art.
X
§ 1a
Exemptions from and Additional Adjustments to Ad Valorem Property Taxation
Art.
X
§ 1b
Property tax limitation and homestead exemption amendment of 1982
Art.
X
§ 2
Art.
X
§ 3
Receipts and expenditures of public moneys
Art.
X
§ 4
Limitation on contracting of state debt
Art.
X
§ 5
Power of taxation
Art.
X
§ 6
Credit of state not to be granted in certain cases
Art.
X
§ 6a
Appropriations and taxation for the benefit of counties, municipalities or other political subdivisions of the state
Art.
X
§ 7
Duties of county authorities in assessing taxes
Art.
X
§ 8
Bonded indebtedness of counties, etc
Art.
X
§ 8a
Issuance of bonds or other obligations payable from property taxes on increases in value due to economic development or redevelopment projects in counties and municipalities
Art.
X
§ 9
Municipal taxes to be uniform
Art.
X
§ 10
School Levy and Bond Amendment
Art.
X
§ 11
County and Municipal Excess Levy Amendment
Art.
X
§ 12
Nonprofit youth organization revenue exemption
Art.
X
§ 1
Corporations
Art.
XI
§ 2
Corporate liability for indebtedness
Art.
XI
§ 3
Exclusive privileges prohibited
Art.
XI
§ 4
Rights of stockholders
Art.
XI
§ 5
Street railroads
Art.
XI
§ 6
Banks
Art.
XI
§ 7
Railroads
Art.
XI
§ 8
Rolling stock considered personal property
Art.
XI
§ 9
Railroads public highways
Art.
XI
§ 10
Stations to be established
Art.
XI
§ 11
Competing lines — Legislative permission
Art.
XI
§ 12
Right of eminent domain
Art.
XI
§ 1
Education
Art.
XII
§ 3
County superintendents
Art.
XII
§ 4
Existing permanent and invested school fund
Art.
XII
§ 5
Support of free schools
Art.
XII
§ 6
School districts
Art.
XII
§ 7
Levies for school purposes
Art.
XII
§ 8
Art.
XII
§ 9
Certain acts prohibited
Art.
XII
§ 10
Creation of independent free school districts
Art.
XII
§ 11
Appropriation for state normal schools
Art.
XII
§ 12
Legislature to foster general school improvements
Art.
XII
§ 1
Land titles
Art.
XIII
§ 2
Land entry prohibited
Art.
XIII
§ 3
Art.
XIII
§ 4
Art.
XIII
§ 5
Art.
XIII
§ 6
Art.
XIII
§ 1
Amendments
Art.
XIV
§ 2
How amendments are made
Art.
XIV
§ 1
The Judicial Amendment
Art.
Amendment 1
§ 1
The Irreducible School Fund Amendment
Art.
Amendment 2
§ 1
The Good Roads Amendment of 1920
Art.
Amendment 3
§ 1
The Good Roads Amendment of 1928
Art.
Amendment 4
§ 1
Fifty Million Dollar Bond Issue for Roads Amendment
Art.
Amendment 5
§ 1
Veterans Bonus Amendment
Art.
Amendment 6
§ 1
Korean Veterans Bonus Amendment
Art.
Amendment 7
§ 1
Better Roads Amendment
Art.
Amendment 8
§ 1
Roads Development Amendment
Art.
Amendment 9
§ 1
Better School Buildings Amendment
Art.
Amendment 10
§ 1
Better Highways Amendment
Art.
Amendment 11
§ 1
Vietnam Veterans Bonus Amendment
Art.
Amendment 12
§ 1
Qualified Veterans Housing Bonds Amendment
Art.
Amendment 13
§ 1
Veterans Bonus Amendment (Persian Gulf, Lebanon, Grenada and Panama)
Art.
Amendment 14
§ 1
Infrastructure Improvement Amendment
Art.
Amendment 15
§ 1
Veterans Bonus Amendment (Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq)
Art.
Amendment 17
§ 1
Roads to Prosperity Amendment of 2017
Art.
Amendment 18