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§ 1
Art.
Preamble
§ 1
Power inherent in the people
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1
§ 2
Equality of all
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1
§ 3
Equal political rights
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1
§ 4
Security against search and seizure
Art.
1
§ 5
Imprisonment for debt
Art.
1
§ 6
Due process of law
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1
§ 7
Art.
1
§ 8
Courts open to all; suits against state
Art.
1
§ 9
Trial by jury inviolate
Art.
1
§ 10
Right of accused to defend
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1
§ 11
Self-incrimination; jeopardy
Art.
1
§ 12
Detaining witnesses
Art.
1
§ 13
Indictment
Art.
1
§ 14
Bail; cruel and unusual punishment
Art.
1
§ 15
Penal code to be humane
Art.
1
§ 16
Conduct of jails
Art.
1
§ 17
Habeas corpus
Art.
1
§ 18
Religious liberty
Art.
1
§ 19
Appropriations for sectarian or religious societies or institutions prohibited
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1
§ 20
Freedom of speech and press; libel; truth a defense
Art.
1
§ 21
Right of petition and peaceable assembly
Art.
1
§ 22
Protection of labor
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1
§ 23
Education
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1
§ 24
Right to bear arms
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1
§ 25
Military subordinate to civil power; quartering soldiers
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1
§ 26
Treason
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1
§ 27
Elections free and equal
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1
§ 28
Taxation; consent of people; uniformity and equality
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1
§ 29
Rights of aliens
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1
§ 30
Monopolies and perpetuities prohibited
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1
§ 31
Control of water
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1
§ 33
Compensation for property taken
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1
§ 34
Uniform operation of general law
Art.
1
§ 35
Ex post facto laws; impairing obligation of contracts
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1
§ 36
Rights not enumerated reserved to people
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1
§ 37
Constitution of United States supreme law of land
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1
§ 38
Right of health care access
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1
§ 39
Opportunity to hunt, fish and trap
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1
§ 1
Powers of government divided into three departments
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2
§ 1
Composition and name of legislature
Art.
3
§ 2
Members' terms and qualifications
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3
§ 3
Legislative apportionment
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3
§ 4
Vacancies
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3
§ 5
When members elected and terms begin
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3
§ 6
Compensation of members; duration of sessions
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3
§ 7
Time and place of sessions
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3
§ 8
Members disqualified for other office
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3
§ 9
Compensation not to be increased during term
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3
§ 10
Presiding officers; other officers; each house to judge of election and qualifications of its members
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3
§ 11
Quorum
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3
§ 12
Rules, punishment and protection
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3
§ 13
Journals
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3
§ 14
Sessions to be open
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3
§ 15
Adjournment
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3
§ 16
Privilege of members
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3
§ 17
Power of impeachment; proceedings
Art.
3
§ 18
Who may be impeached
Art.
3
§ 19
Removal of officers not subject to impeachment
Art.
3
§ 20
Laws to be passed by bill; alteration or amendment of bills
Art.
3
§ 21
Enacting clause of law
Art.
3
§ 22
Limitation on time for introducing bill for appropriation
Art.
3
§ 23
Bill must go to committee
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3
§ 24
Bill to contain only one subject, which shall be expressed in title
Art.
3
§ 25
Vote required to pass bill
Art.
3
§ 26
How laws revised, amended or extended
Art.
3
§ 27
Special and local laws prohibited
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3
§ 28
Signing of bills
Art.
3
§ 29
Legislative employees
Art.
3
§ 30
Extra compensation to public officers prohibited
Art.
3
§ 31
Supplies for legislature and departments
Art.
3
§ 32
Changing terms and salaries of public officers
Art.
3
§ 33
Origin of revenue bills
Art.
3
§ 34
General appropriation bills; other appropriations
Art.
3
§ 35
Money expended only on appropriation
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3
§ 36
Prohibited appropriations
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3
§ 37
Delegation of power to perform municipal functions prohibited
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3
§ 38
Investment of trust funds
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3
§ 39
Aid to railroads prohibited
Art.
3
§ 40
Debts to state or municipal corporation cannot be released unless otherwise prescribed by legislature
Art.
3
§ 41
Resolutions; approval or veto
Art.
3
§ 42
Bribery of legislators and solicitation of bribery defined; expulsion of legislator for bribery or solicitation
Art.
3
§ 43
Offers to bribe
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3
§ 44
Witnesses in bribery charges
Art.
3
§ 45
Legislature shall define corrupt solicitation
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3
§ 46
Interested member shall not vote
Art.
3
§ 47
Congressional representation
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3
§ 48
State census
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3
§ 49
District representation
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3
§ 50
Apportionment for first legislature
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3
§ 51
Filling of vacancies
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3
§ 52
Initiative and referendum
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3
§ 53
Creation of criminal penalties not subject to governor's power to commute
Art.
3
§ 1
Executive power vested in governor; term of governor
Art.
4
§ 2
Qualifications of governor
Art.
4
§ 3
Election of governor
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4
§ 4
Powers and duties of governor generally
Art.
4
§ 5
Pardoning power of governor
Art.
4
§ 6
Acting governor
Art.
4
§ 7
When governor may fill vacancies in office
Art.
4
§ 8
Approval or veto of legislation by governor; passage over veto
Art.
4
§ 9
Veto of items of appropriations
Art.
4
§ 10
Bribery or coercion of or by governor
Art.
4
§ 11
State officers; election; qualifications; terms
Art.
4
§ 12
State officers; powers and duties
Art.
4
§ 13
Salaries of governor and other elective state officers
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4
§ 14
Examination of accounts
Art.
4
§ 15
Great seal of state
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4
§ 1
How judicial power vested
Art.
5
§ 2
Supreme court generally; appellate jurisdiction
Art.
5
§ 3
Supreme court generally; original jurisdiction
Art.
5
§ 4
Art.
5
§ 5
Voluntary retirement and compensation of justices and judges
Art.
5
§ 6
Commission on judicial conduct and ethics
Art.
5
§ 7
Supreme court generally; terms of court
Art.
5
§ 8
Supreme court generally; qualifications of justices
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5
§ 9
Supreme court generally; clerk
Art.
5
§ 10
District courts generally; jurisdiction
Art.
5
§ 11
District courts generally; judges to hold court for each other
Art.
5
§ 12
District courts generally; qualifications of judges
Art.
5
§ 13
District courts generally; clerks
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5
§ 14
District courts generally; commissioners
Art.
5
§ 15
Style of process
Art.
5
§ 16
Supreme court judges limited to judicial duties
Art.
5
§ 17
Salaries of judges of supreme and district courts
Art.
5
§ 18
Appeals from district courts to supreme court
Art.
5
§ 19
State divided into districts; election and terms of district judges
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5
§ 20
Districts defined
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5
§ 21
Increase in number of districts and judges
Art.
5
§ 22
Jurisdiction of justices of the peace
Art.
5
§ 23
Appeals from justices' courts
Art.
5
§ 24
Terms of district courts; attaching unorganized territory to organized counties
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5
§ 25
Judges of supreme and district courts shall not practice
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5
§ 26
Power to fix terms of court
Art.
5
§ 27
Judges of supreme and district courts shall not hold other office
Art.
5
§ 28
Appeals from boards of arbitration
Art.
5
§ 29
Juvenile delinquency and domestic relations courts
Art.
5
§ 2
Qualifications of electors
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6
§ 3
Electors privileged from arrest
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6
§ 4
Exemption of electors from military duty
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6
§ 5
Electors must be citizens of United States
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6
§ 6
What persons excluded from franchise
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6
§ 7
When residence not lost by reason of absence
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6
§ 8
Soldiers stationed in state not considered residents
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6
§ 9
Educational qualifications of electors
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6
§ 10
Alien suffrage
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6
§ 11
Manner of holding elections
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6
§ 12
Registration of voters required
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6
§ 13
Purity of elections to be provided for
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6
§ 14
Election contests
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6
§ 15
Qualifications for office
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6
§ 16
When officers to hold over; suspension of officers
Art.
6
§ 17
Time of holding general and special elections; when elected officers to enter upon duties
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6
§ 18
Method of selecting officers whose election is not provided for
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6
§ 19
Dual office holding
Art.
6
§ 20
Oath of office; form
Art.
6
§ 21
Oath of office; how administered
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6
§ 22
Absent voter ballots, voting and registration
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6
§ 1
Legislature to provide for public schools
Art.
7
§ 2
School revenues
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7
§ 3
Other sources of school revenues
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7
§ 4
Restriction in use of revenues
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7
§ 5
Fines and penalties to belong to public school fund
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7
§ 6
State to keep school funds; investment
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7
§ 7
Application of school funds
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7
§ 8
Distribution of school funds
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7
§ 9
Taxation for schools
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7
§ 10
Art.
7
§ 11
Textbooks
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7
§ 12
Sectarianism prohibited
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7
§ 13
Land commissioners
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7
§ 14
Supervision of schools entrusted to state superintendent of public instruction
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7
§ 15
Establishment of university confirmed
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7
§ 16
Tuition free
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7
§ 17
Government of university
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7
§ 18
Establishment of institutions
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7
§ 19
Territorial institutions pass to state
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7
§ 20
Duty of legislature to protect and promote health and morality of people
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7
§ 21
Buildings and property of territory pass to state
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7
§ 22
Construction and supervision
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7
§ 23
Permanent location
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7
§ 1
Water is state property
Art.
8
§ 2
Board of control
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8
§ 3
Priority of appropriation
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8
§ 4
Water divisions
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8
§ 5
State engineer
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8
§ 1
Inspector of mines
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9
§ 2
Legislature to enact regulatory laws
Art.
9
§ 3
Restrictions on employment in mines
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9
§ 4
Right of action for injuries
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9
§ 5
School of mines
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9
§ 6
State geologist
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9
§ 1
Creation
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10
§ 2
Control by state
Art.
10
§ 3
Forfeited charters
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10
§ 4
Damages for personal injuries or death; worker's compensation
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10
§ 5
Acceptance of constitution
Art.
10
§ 6
Engaging in more than one line of business
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10
§ 7
What corporations are common carriers
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10
§ 8
Trusts prohibited
Art.
10
§ 9
Eminent domain
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10
§ 10
Mutual and co-operative associations
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10
§ 11
Powers and rights of railroads
Art.
10
§ 12
Discrimination by railroads and telegraph lines forbidden
Art.
10
§ 13
Railroads to make annual reports to state auditor
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10
§ 14
Eminent domain
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10
§ 15
Aid to railroads and telegraph lines prohibited
Art.
10
§ 16
Acceptance of constitution by existing railroad, transportation and telegraph companies
Art.
10
§ 17
Rights of telegraph companies
Art.
10
§ 18
Foreign railroad or telegraph company must have agent for service of process
Art.
10
§ 19
Location of depots
Art.
10
§ 1
State boundaries
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11
§ 1
Existing counties remain such
Art.
12
§ 2
Organization of new counties
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12
§ 3
Changing county seats
Art.
12
§ 4
Township organization
Art.
12
§ 5
County officers
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12
§ 1
Art.
13
§ 2
Consent of electors necessary
Art.
13
§ 3
Restriction on powers to levy taxes and contract debts
Art.
13
§ 4
Franchises
Art.
13
§ 5
Acquisition of water rights
Art.
13
§ 1
Stated salaries to be paid
Art.
14
§ 2
Fees
Art.
14
§ 3
Legislature to designate county offices and fix salaries of county officers
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14
§ 4
Deputies
Art.
14
§ 5
Who are county officers referred to by section 3
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14
§ 6
Consolidation of offices
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14
§ 1
Assessment of lands and improvements thereon
Art.
15
§ 2
Assessment of coal lands
Art.
15
§ 3
Taxation of mines and mining claims
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15
§ 4
State levy limited
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15
§ 5
County levies limited
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15
§ 6
City levies limited
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15
§ 7
Depositories for public moneys
Art.
15
§ 8
Profit making from public funds prohibited
Art.
15
§ 9
Legislature to provide for state board of equalization
Art.
15
§ 10
Duties of state board of equalization
Art.
15
§ 11
Uniformity of assessment required
Art.
15
§ 12
Exemptions from taxation
Art.
15
§ 13
Tax must be authorized by law; law to state object
Art.
15
§ 14
Surrender of taxing power prohibited
Art.
15
§ 15
State tax for support of public schools
Art.
15
§ 16
Disposition of fees, excises and license taxes on vehicles and gasoline
Art.
15
§ 17
County levy for support and maintenance of public schools
Art.
15
§ 18
Full tax credit allowed against any liability arising from a tax on income
Art.
15
§ 20
Higher education trust funds; investments; earnings
Art.
15
§ 1
Limitation on state debt
Art.
16
§ 2
Creation of state debt in excess of taxes for current year
Art.
16
§ 3
Limitation on county debt
Art.
16
§ 4
Creation of county or municipal debt in excess of taxes for current year
Art.
16
§ 5
Limitation on municipal, county or school district debt
Art.
16
§ 6
Loan of credit; donations prohibited; works of internal improvement
Art.
16
§ 7
Payments of public money
Art.
16
§ 8
Endorsements required on bonds and other evidences of indebtedness
Art.
16
§ 9
Construction and improvement of public roads and highways
Art.
16
§ 10
Construction and improvement of works for conservation and utilization of water
Art.
16
§ 11
Construction, maintenance and improvement of public airports, aircraft landing strips and related facilities
Art.
16
§ 12
Economic development loan fund
Art.
16
§ 13
Industrial and economic development; powers of counties and municipalities
Art.
16
§ 1
Of whom militia constituted
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17
§ 2
Legislature to provide for enrollment, equipment and discipline
Art.
17
§ 3
How officers commissioned
Art.
17
§ 4
Flags
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17
§ 5
Governor to be commander-in-chief; powers
Art.
17
§ 1
Acceptance of lands from United States; sale of such lands
Art.
18
§ 2
Application of proceeds of sale or rental
Art.
18
§ 3
Board of land commissioners
Art.
18
§ 4
Legislature to provide for disposition of lands
Art.
18
§ 5
Special privileges prohibited
Art.
18
§ 6
Disposition of unexpended income of perpetual school fund
Art.
18
§ 1
Legislature to provide for protection of livestock and stock owners
Art.
19
§ 2
Day's work
Art.
19
§ 3
Who shall not be employed on public works
Art.
19
§ 4
Legislature to provide for enforcement of section 3
Art.
19
§ 5
Legislature to establish courts of arbitration; duties
Art.
19
§ 6
Importing armed bodies to suppress violence prohibited; exception
Art.
19
§ 7
Contract exempting employer from liability for personal injuries prohibited
Art.
19
§ 8
Legislature to provide for voluntary submission of differences to arbitrators
Art.
19
§ 9
Exemption of homestead
Art.
19
§ 10
Intoxicating liquors
Art.
19
§ 11
Use of monies in public employee retirement funds restricted
Art.
19
§ 1
How amendments proposed by legislature and submitted to people
Art.
20
§ 2
How two or more amendments voted on
Art.
20
§ 3
Constitutional convention
Art.
20
§ 4
Constitution adopted by convention to be submitted to people
Art.
20
§ 1
Acquired rights continue
Art.
21
§ 2
Territorial property vested in state
Art.
21
§ 3
Territorial laws become state laws
Art.
21
§ 4
Accrued fines go to state
Art.
21
§ 5
State to sue on bonds and prosecute crimes
Art.
21
§ 6
Territorial officers to hold over
Art.
21
§ 7
Submission of constitution
Art.
21
§ 8
When constitution takes effect
Art.
21
§ 9
First state election; time of holding; proclamation
Art.
21
§ 10
First state election; duty of county commissioners; who may vote; conduct of election
Art.
21
§ 11
First state election; board of canvassers
Art.
21
§ 12
When officers shall qualify; oaths; bonds
Art.
21
§ 13
First state legislature
Art.
21
§ 14
Laws to be passed
Art.
21
§ 15
Transfer of pending causes, records and seal of courts
Art.
21
§ 16
Court seals
Art.
21
§ 17
Transfer of causes and records from probate courts to district courts
Art.
21
§ 18
How legislature chosen
Art.
21
§ 19
Duration of terms of territorial county and precinct officers
Art.
21
§ 20
Terms of state officers first elected
Art.
21
§ 21
Regular session of legislature following first session
Art.
21
§ 22
Regular election following first session of legislature to be omitted
Art.
21
§ 23
Why constitution framed
Art.
21
§ 24
State part of United States
Art.
21
§ 25
Religious liberty
Art.
21
§ 26
Ownership of certain lands disclaimed; restriction on taxation of nonresidents
Art.
21
§ 27
Territorial liabilities assumed
Art.
21
§ 28
Legislature to provide for public schools
Art.
21