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Ms. Const. art. 7, § 194 — Article 7 / Section 194
MS Const., Article 7, Section 194
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall provide by law, that in all elections for directors or managers of incorporated companies, every stockholder shall have the right to vote in person or by proxy, for the number of shares of stock owned by him, for as many persons as there are directors or managers to be elected, or to cumulate said shares, so as to give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors multiplied by the number of his shares of stock shall equal, or to distribute them on the same principle among as many candidates as he shall see fit; and such directors or managers shall not be elected in any other manner; but no person who is engaged or interested in a competing business, either individually or as employee, or stockholder, shall serve on any board of directors of any corporation without the consent of a majority in interest of the stockholders thereof.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 141 — Article 5 / Section 141
MS Const., Article 5, Section 141
Status: in_force

. If no person shall receive such majorities, then the house of representatives shall proceed to choose a governor from the two persons who shall have received the highest number of popular votes; the election shall be by viva voce vote, which shall be recorded in the journal, in such manner as to show for whom each member voted.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 107 — Article 4 / Section 107
MS Const., Article 4, Section 107
Status: in_force

. All stationery, printing, paper, and fuel, used by the legislature, and other departments of the government, shall be furnished, and the printing and binding of the laws, journals, department reports, and other printing and binding, and the repairing and furnishing the halls and rooms used for the meeting of the legislature, and its committees, shall be performed under contract, to be given to the lowest responsible bidder, below such maximum and under such regulations as may be prescribed by law. No member of the legislature or officer of any department shall be in any way interested in such contract; and all such contracts shall be subject to the approval of the governor and State treasurer.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 12 — Article 3 / Section 12
MS Const., Article 3, Section 12
Status: in_force

. The right of every citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person or property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but the legislature may regulate or forbid carrying concealed weapons.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 182 — Article 7 / Section 182
MS Const., Article 7, Section 182
Status: in_force

. The power to tax corporations and their property shall never be surrendered or abridged by any contract or grant to which the State or any political subdivision thereof may be a party, except that the legislature may grant exemptions from taxation in the encouragement of manufactures and other new enterprises of public utility extending for a period not exceeding five years, the time of such exemptions to commence from date of charter, if to a corporation; and if to an individual enterprise, then from the commencement of work; but when the legislature grants such exemptions for a period of five years or less, it shall be done by general laws, which shall distinctly enumerate the classes of manufactures and other new enterprises of public utility entitled to such exemptions, and shall prescribe the mode and manner in which the right to exemptions shall be determined.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 14 — Article 3 / Section 14
MS Const., Article 3, Section 14
Status: in_force

. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, except by due process of law.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 96 — Article 4 / Section 96
MS Const., Article 4, Section 96
Status: in_force

. The legislature shail never grant extra compensation, fee or allowance, to any public officer, agent, servant or contractor, after service rendered, or contract made, nor authorize payment, or part payment, of any claim under any contract, not authorized by law; but appropriations may be made for expenditures in repelling invasion, preventing, or suppressing insurrections.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 13 — Article 3 / Section 13
MS Const., Article 3, Section 13
Status: in_force

. The freedom of speech and of the press shall be held sacred, and in all prosecutions for libel the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 151 — Article 6 / Section 151
MS Const., Article 6, Section 151
Status: in_force

. All vacancies which may occur in said court from death, resignation, or removal, shall be filled by appointment as aforesaid; but if a vacancy shall occur during the recess of the legislature, the governor shall appoint a successor who shall hold his office until the end of the next session of the senate unless his nomination shall be sooner rejected.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 148 — Article 6 / Section 148
MS Const., Article 6, Section 148
Status: in_force

. The supreme court shall be held twice in each ​ year at the seat of government, at such time as the legislature may provide.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 196 — Article 7 / Section 196
MS Const., Article 7, Section 196
Status: in_force

. No transportation corporation shall issue stocks or bonds except for money, labor done, or in good faith agreed to be done, or money or property actually received; and all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 179 — Article 7 / Section 179
MS Const., Article 7, Section 179
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall never remit the forfeiture of the franchise of any corporation now existing, nor alter nor amend the charter thereof, nor pass any general nor special law for the benefit of such corporation, except upon the condition that such corporation shall thereafter hold its charter and franchises subject to the provisions of this constitution; and the reception by any corporation of any provision of any such laws, or the taking of any benefit or advantage from the same, shall be conclusively held an agreement by such corporation to hold thereafter its charter and franchises under the provisions hereof.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 166 — Article 6 / Section 166
MS Const., Article 6, Section 166
Status: in_force

. The judges of the supreme court, of the circuit courts and the chancellors shall receive for their services a compensation to be fixed by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during their continuance in office.
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 252 — Article 12 / Section 252
MS Const., Article 12, Section 252
Status: in_force

. The term of office of all elective officers under this constitution shall be four years, except as otherwise provided herein. A general election for all elective officers shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, A. D., 1895, and every four (4) years thereafter; provided, the legislature may change the day and date of general elections to any day and date in October, November or December.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 19 — Article 3 / Section 19
MS Const., Article 3, Section 19
Status: in_force

. Human life shall not be imperiled by the practice of dueling; and any citizen of this State who shall hereafter fight a duel, or assist in the same as second, or send, accept, or knowingly carry a challenge therefor, whether such act be done in the State, or out of it, or who shall go out of the State to fight a duel, or to assist in the same as second, or to send, accept or carry a challenge, shall be disqualified from holding any office under this constitution and shall be disfranchised. ​
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 99 — Article 4 / Section 99
MS Const., Article 4, Section 99
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall not elect any other than its own officers, State librarian, and United States senators; but this section shall not prohibit the legislature from appointing presidential electors.
Ms. Const. art. 8, § 210 — Article 8 / Section 210
MS Const., Article 8, Section 210
Status: in_force

. No public officer of this State, or any district, county, city or town thereof, nor any teacher or trustee of any public school, shall be interested in the sale, proceeds ​ or profits of any books, apparatus or furniture to be used in any public school in this State. Penalties shall be provided by law for the violation of this section.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 10 — Article 15 / Section 10
MS Const., Article 15, Section 10
Status: in_force

. The sheriffs of the several counties in this State shall procure for their respective counties a sufficient number of voting compartments, shelves and tables for the use of electors, which shall be so arranged that it shall be impossi ​ ble for one voter at one table, shelf or compartment to see another voter who is preparing his ballot. The number of such voting shelves, tables or compartments, shall not be less than one for every one hundred electors at each voting precinct. Each shelf, table and compartment, shall be kept furnished with a card of instruction posted in each compartment, and proper supplies and conveniences for marking the ballots by electors.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 47 — Article 4 / Section 47
MS Const., Article 4, Section 47
Status: in_force

. No member of the legislature shall take any fee or reward, or be counsel in any measure pending before either house of the legislature, under penalty of forfeiting his seat, upon proof thereof to the satisfaction of the house, of which he is a member.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 71 — Article 4 / Section 71
MS Const., Article 4, Section 71
Status: in_force

. Every bill introduced into the legislature shall have a title, and the title ought to indicate clearly the subject matter, or matters, of the proposed legislation. Each committee to which a bill may be referred, shall express in writing its judgment of the sufficiency of the title of the bill, and this, too, whether the recommendation be that the bill do pass, or do not pass.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 277 — Article 15 / Section 277
MS Const., Article 15, Section 277
Status: in_force

. All laws of this State which are repugnant to ​ the provisions of Article 13, sections 254 to 256, inclusive, on the subject of the apportionment of representatives and senators in the legislature, shall be and remain in force until the first day of October, A. D., 1891, but no longer.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 55 — Article 4 / Section 55
MS Const., Article 4, Section 55
Status: in_force

. Each house may determine rules of its own proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior; and with the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present, expel a member; but no member, unless expelled for theft, bribery or corruption, shall be expelled a second time for the same offense. Both houses shall from time to time, publish journals of their proceedings, except such parts as may in their opinion require secrecy; and the yeas and nays, on any question, shall be entered on the journal, at the request of one-tenth of the members present; and the yeas and nays shall be entered on the journal on the final passage of every bill.
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 247 — Article 12 / Section 247
MS Const., Article 12, Section 247
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall enact laws to secure fairness in party primary elections, conventions or other methods of naming party candidates.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 122 — Article 5 / Section 122
MS Const., Article 5, Section 122
Status: in_force

. The governor shall, from time to time, give the legislature informatin of the state of the government, and recommend for consideration such measures as may be deemed necessary and expedient.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 65 — Article 4 / Section 65
MS Const., Article 4, Section 65
Status: in_force

. All votes on the final passage of any measure shall be subject to reconsideration for at least one whole legislative day, and no motion to reconsider such vote shall be disposed of adversely on the day on which the original vote was taken, except on the last day of the session.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 30 — Article 3 / Section 30
MS Const., Article 3, Section 30
Status: in_force

. There shall be no imprisonment for debt.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 15 — Article 15 / Section 15
MS Const., Article 15, Section 15
Status: in_force

. If the voter marks more names than there are persons to be elected to an office, or if for any reason it is impossible to determine from the ballot the voter's choice for any office voted for, his ballot so cast shall not be counted. No ballot not provided in accordance with this ordinance shall be deposited or counted.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 109 — Article 4 / Section 109
MS Const., Article 4, Section 109
Status: in_force

. No public officer or member of the legislature shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contract with the State, or any district, county, city or town thereof, authorized by any law passed, or order made by any board of which he may be or may have been a member, during the term for which he shall have been chosen, or within one year after the expiration of such term.