CONSTITUTION of the STATE OF ARKANSAS of 1874

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CONSTITUTION of the

STATE OF ARKANSAS of 1874

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PREAMBLE ARTICLE 1 - BOUNDARIES ARTICLE 2 - DECLARATION OF RIGHTS

SECTION 1. Source of power. 2. Freedom and independence. 3. Equality before the law. 4. Right of assembly and of petition. 5. Right to bear arms. 6. Liberty of the press and of speech - Libel. 7. Jury trial - Right to - Waiver - Civil cases, nine jurors agreeing. 8. Criminal charges - Self - incrimination - Due process - Double jeopardy - Bail. 9. Excessive bail or punishment prohibited - Witnesses - Detention.

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10. Rights of accused enumerated - Change of venue. 11. Habeas corpus. 12. Suspension of laws. 13. Redress of wrongs. 14. Treason. 15. Unreasonable searches and seizures. 16. Imprisonment for debt. 17. Attainder - Ex post facto laws. 18. Privileges and immunities - Equality. 19. Perpetuities and ruel or unusual punishment be inflicted; nor witnesses be unreasonably detained. 20. Resident aliens - Descent of property. 21. Life, liberty and property - Banishment prohibited. 22. Property rights - Taking without just compensation prohibited. 23. Eminent domain and taxation. 24. Religious liberty. 25. Protection of religion. 26. Religious tests. 27. Slavery - Standing armies - Military subordinate to civil power. 28. Tenure of lands. 29. Enumeration of rights of people not exclusive of other rights -Protection against encroachment.

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ARTICLE 3 - FRANCHISE AND ELECTIONS SECTION. 1. Qualifications of electors - Equal suffrage - Poll tax. 2. Right of suffrage. 3. [Repeated]. 4. Privilege of electors from arrest. 5. Idiots and insane persons. 6. Violation of election laws - Penalty. 7. Soldiers and sailors - Residence - Voting rights. 8. Time of holding elections. 9. Testimony in election contest - Self incrimination. 10. Election officers. 11. Votes to be counted. 12. Elections by representative - Viva voce vote ARTICLE 4 - DEPARTMENTS SECTION. 1. Departments of government. 2. Separation of departments

ARTICLE 5 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT SECTION.

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1. General Assembly. 2. House. 3. Senate. 4. Qualifications of senators and representatives. 5. Time of meeting. 6. Vacancies - Writs of election. 7. Officers ineligible. 8. Defaulters ineligible. 9. Persons convicted ineligible. 10. Members ineligible to civil office. 11. Appointment of officers - Qualifications of members - Quorum. 12. Powers and duties of each house. 13. Sessions to be open. 14. Election of officers by General Assembly. 15. Privileges of members. 16. Per diem and mileage of General Assembly 17. Duration of sessions. 18. Presiding Officers 19. Style of laws - Enacting clause. 20. State not made defendant.

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21. Laws by bills - Amendment. 22. Passage of bills. 23. Revival, amendment or extension of laws. 24. Local and special laws. 25. Special laws - Suspension of general laws. 26. Notice of local or special bills. 27. Extra compensation prohibited - Exception. 28. Adjournments. 29. Appropriations. 30. General and special appropriations. 31. Purposes of taxes and appropriations. 32. Workmen's Compensation Laws - Actions for personal injuries. 33. Liabilities of corporations to state. 34. Introduction of bills - Time limit. 35. Bribery of member of General Assembly or state officer. 36. Expulsion of member no bar to indictment. [37.] Laws - Enactment - Majority required. [38.] Taxes - Increase - Approval by electors. [39.] State expenses - Limitation - Exceptions. [40.] General appropriations bill - Enactment. [41.] Expenses incurred or authorized only by bill - Repealing clause.

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ARTICLE 6 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT SECTION. 1. Executive officers. 2. Governor - Supreme executive power. 3. Election of executive officers. 4. Contested election. 5. Qualifications of Governor. 6. Governor, commander-in-chief of armed services. 7. Information and reports from departments. 8. Messages to General Assembly. 9. Seal of State. 10.Grants and commissions. 11. Incompatible offices. 12. President of Senate succeeding to Governor's office. 13. Speaker of House succeeding to office of Governor. 14. Election to fill vacancy. 15. Approval of bills - Vetoes. 16. Concurrent orders or resolutions - Veto. 17. Vetoes of items of appropriation bills.

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18. Pardoning power. 19. Extraordinary sessions of General Assembly - Calling - Purposes. 20. Power to adjourn General Assembly. 21. Duties of secretary of state. 22. Duties of executive officers in general - Dual office holding prohibited - Vacancies - Filling. 23. Filling vacancies in other offices.

ARTICLE 7 - JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT SECTION. 1. Judicial power vested in courts. 2. Supreme Court. 3. Increase of number of judges. 4. Jurisdiction and powers of Supreme Court. 5. Jurisdiction to issue quo warranto. 6. Qualifications of judges of Supreme Court. 7. Clerk and reporter. 8. Place of holding court. 9. Special judges. pensation of Supreme Court judges - Dual office holding. 11. Circuit courts - Jurisdiction. 12. Terms of circuit court.

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13. Judicial circuits. 14. Superintending control and appellate jurisdiction over inferior courts - Writs - Power to issue. 15. Equity jurisdiction. 16. Qualifications of circuit judges. 17. Elections of circuit judges - Term of office. 18. Compensation of circuit court judges - Dual office holding. 19. Circuit clerks - Election - Term of office - Ex-officio duties - County clerks elected in certain counties. 20. Disqualification of judges - Grounds. 21. Special judges of circuit courts. 22. Exchange of circuits. 23. Change to juries. 24. Prosecuting attorneys. 25. Judges debarred from practice. 26. Punishment of indirect contempt provided for by law. 27. Removal of county and township officers - Grounds. 28. County courts - Jurisdiction - Single judge holding court. 29. County judge - Election - Term - Qualifications. 30. Quorum court - County judge and justices of peace. 31. County court - Terms. 32. Courts of common pleas - Jurisdiction.

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