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Ms. Const. art. 9, § 214 — Article 9 / Section 214
MS Const., Article 9, Section 214
Status: in_force

. All able-bodied male citizens of the State between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years shall be liable to military duty in the militia of this State, in such manner as the legislature may provide.
Ms. Const. art. 14, § 263 — Article 14 / Section 263
MS Const., Article 14, Section 263
Status: in_force

. The marriage of a white person with a negro or mulatto, or person who shall have one-eighth or more of negro blood, shall be unlawful and void.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 127 — Article 5 / Section 127
MS Const., Article 5, Section 127
Status: in_force

. All commissions shall be in the name and by the authority of the State of Mississippi, be sealed with the great seal of State, and be signed by the governor, and attested by the secretary of State.
Ms. Const. art. 13, § 254 — Article 13 / Section 254
MS Const., Article 13, Section 254
Status: in_force

. The number of representatives in the lower house of the legislature shall be one hundred and thirty-three, to be apportioned as follows: First—The counties of Choctaw, Covington, Greene, Hancock, Issaquena, Jones, Lawrence, Leflore, Marion ​ Neshoba, Pearl River, Perry, Quitman, Scott, Sharkey, Simpson, Smith, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tishomingo, Tunica, Wayne and Webster, each shall have one representative. Second—The counties of Alcorn, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Clay, Coahoma, DeSoto, Kemper, Lafayette, Madison, Newton, Pike, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Rankin, Tate, Union, Wilkinson and Yalobusha, each shall have two representatives. Third—the counties of Copiah, Holmes, Marshall, Monroe, Noxubee, Panola, Warren and Washington, each shall have three representatives. Fourth—The counties of Franklin and Lincoln each shall have one representative and a floater between them. Fifth—The counties of Tippah and Benton each shall have one representative and a floater between them. Sixth—The counties of Claiborne and Jefferson each shall have one representative and a floater between them. Seventh—The counties of Clarke and Jasper each shall have one representative and a floater between them. Eighth—The counties of Grenada and Montgomery each shall have one representative and a floater between them. Ninth—The counties of Leake and Winston, each shall have one representative and a floater between them. Tenth—The counties of Harrison and Jackson, each shall have one representative and a floater between them. Eleventh—The county of Yazoo shall have three representatives and the county of Hinds shall have three representatives, and they shall have a floater between them. Twelfth—The county of Lauderdale shall have three representatives, one to be elected by the city of Meridian, one by the county outside the city limits, and one by the whole county including Meridian. Thirteenth—The county of Adams outside of the city of Natchez shall have one representative and the city of Natchez one representative. Fourteenth—The county of Lowndes shall have three representatives, two of whom shall be elected by that part of the county east of the Tombigbee river, and one by that portion of the county west of said river. Fifteenth—The county of Oktibbeha shall have two representatives, one of whom shall be elected by that portion of the county east of the line running north and south between ranges thirteen and fourteen, and the other by that portion of the county west of said line. Sixteenth—The county of Lee shall have two representatives, the county of Itawamba one, and a floater between them. Seventeenth—In counties divided into legislative districts, any citizen of the county eligible for election to the ​ house of representatives shall be eligible to represent any district thereof. THE SENATE.
Ms. Const. art. 8, § 203 — Article 8 / Section 203
MS Const., Article 8, Section 203
Status: in_force

. There shall be a board of education, consisting ​ of the secretary of state, the attorney-general, and the superintendent of public education, for the management and investment of the school funds, according to law, and for the performance of such other duties as may be prescribed. The superintendent and one other of said board shall constitute a quorum.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 150 — Article 6 / Section 150
MS Const., Article 6, Section 150
Status: in_force

. No person shall be eligible to the office of judge of the supreme court who shall not have attained the age of thirty years at the time of his appointment, and who shall not have been a practicing attorney and a citizen of the State for five years immediately preceding such appointment.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 23 — Article 3 / Section 23
MS Const., Article 3, Section 23
Status: in_force

. The people shall be secure in their persons, houses and possessions, from unreasonable seizure or search; and no warrant shall be issued without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, specially designating the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized.
Ms. Const. art. 14, § 258 — Article 14 / Section 258
MS Const., Article 14, Section 258
Status: in_force

. The credit of the State shall not be pledged or loaned in aid of any person, association or corporation; and the State shall not become a stockholder in any corporation or association, nor assume, redeem, secure or pay any indebtedness or pretended indebtedness alleged to be due by the State of Mississippi, to any person, association or corporation whatsoever, claiming the same as owners, holders or assignees of any bond or bonds, now generally known as “Union Bank” bonds and “Planters' Bank” bonds.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 186 — Article 7 / Section 186
MS Const., Article 7, Section 186
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall pass laws to prevent abuses, unjust discrimination and extortion in all charges of express, telephone, sleeping car, telegraph and railroad companies, and shall enact laws for the supervision of railroads, express, telephone, telegraph, sleeping car companies and other common carriers in this State, by commission or otherwise, and shall provide adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of forfeiture of their franchises.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 159 — Article 6 / Section 159
MS Const., Article 6, Section 159
Status: in_force

. The chancery court shall have full jurisdiction in the following matters and cases, viz: ( a ) All matters in equity. ( b ) Divorce and alimony. ( c ) Matters testamentary and of administration. ( d ) Minor's business. ( e ) Cases of idiocy, lunacy and persons of unsound mind. ( f ) All cases of which the said court had jurisdiction under the laws in force when this constitution is put in operation.
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 251 — Article 12 / Section 251
MS Const., Article 12, Section 251
Status: in_force

. Electors shall not be registered within four months next before any election at which they may offer to vote; but appeals may be heard and determined and revision take place at any time prior to the election; and no person who, in respect to age and residence, would become entitled to vote, within the said four months, shall be excluded from registration on account of his want of qualification at the time of registration.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 200 — Article 7 / Section 200
MS Const., Article 7, Section 200
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall enforce the provisions of this article by appropriate legislation.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 195 — Article 7 / Section 195
MS Const., Article 7, Section 195
Status: in_force

. Express, telegraph, telephone and sleeping car companies are declared common carriers in their respective lines of business and subject to liability as such.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 106 — Article 4 / Section 106
MS Const., Article 4, Section 106
Status: in_force

. There shall be a State librarian, to be chosen by the legislature, on joint vote of the two houses, to serve for four years, whose duties and compensation shall be prescribed by law. Any woman, a resident of the State four years, and who has attained the age of twenty years, shall be eligible to said office.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 114 — Article 4 / Section 114
MS Const., Article 4, Section 114
Status: in_force

. Returns of all elections by the people shall be made to the secretary of state in such manner as shall be provided by law.
Ms. Const. art. 8, § 207 — Article 8 / Section 207
MS Const., Article 8, Section 207
Status: in_force

. Separate schools shall be maintained for children of the white and colored races.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 126 — Article 5 / Section 126
MS Const., Article 5, Section 126
Status: in_force

. There shall be a seal of the State kept by the governor, and used by him officially, and be called the great seal of the State of Mississippi.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 44 — Article 4 / Section 44
MS Const., Article 4, Section 44
Status: in_force

. No person shall be eligible to a seat in either house of the legislature, or to any office of profit or trust, who shall have been convicted of bribery, perjury, or other infamous crime; and any person who shall have been convicted of giving, or offering, directly, or indirectly, any bribe to procure his election or appointment; and any person who shall give or offer any bribe to procure the election or appointment of any person to office, shall, on conviction thereof, be disqualified from holding any office of profit or trust under the laws of this State.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 105 — Article 4 / Section 105
MS Const., Article 4, Section 105
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall provide for the enumera- of the whole number of inhabitants, and the qualified electors of the State, once in every ten years; and the first enumeration shall be made during the two months beginning on the first Monday of June, 1895, and the legislature shall provide for the same by law.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 94 — Article 4 / Section 94
MS Const., Article 4, Section 94
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall never create by law any distinction between the rights of men and women to acquire, own, enjoy, and dispose of property of all kinds, or their power to contract in reference thereto. Married women are hereby fully emancipated from all disability on account of coverture. But this shall not prevent the legislature from regulating contracts between husband and wife; nor shall the legislature be prevented from regulating the sale of homesteads.
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 249 — Article 12 / Section 249
MS Const., Article 12, Section 249
Status: in_force

. No one shall be allowed to vote for members of the legislature or other officers who has not been duly registered under the constitution and laws of this State, by an officer of this State, legally authorized to register the voters thereof. And registration under the constitution and laws of this State by the proper officers of this State is hereby declared to be an essential and necessary qualification to vote at any and all elections.
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 242 — Article 12 / Section 242
MS Const., Article 12, Section 242
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall provide by law for the reg ​ istration of all persons entitled to vote at any election, and all persons offering to register shall take the following oath or affirmation: “I, —————— , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am twenty-one years old, (or I will be before the next election in this county) and that I will have resided in this State two years, and ——— election district of ——— county one year next preceding the ensuing election [or if it be stated in the oath that the person proposing to register is a minister of the gospel in charge of an organized church, then it will be sufficient to aver therein, two years residence in the State and six months in said election district], and am now in good faith a resident of the same, and that I am not disqualified from voting by reason of having been convicted of any crime named in the constitution of this State as a disqualification to be an elector; that I will truly answer all questions propounded to me concerning my antecedents so far as they relate to my right to vote, and also as to my residence before my citizenship in this district; that I will faithfully support the constitution of the United States and of the State of Mississippi, and will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. So help me God.” In registering voters in cities and towns, not wholly in one election district, the name of such city or town may be substituted in the oath for the election district. Any wilful and corrupt false statement in said affidavit, or in answer to any material question propounded as herein authorized, shall be perjury.
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 139 — Article 5 / Section 139
MS Const., Article 5, Section 139
Status: in_force

. The legislature may empower the governor to remove and appoint officers, in any county or counties or municipal corporations, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 21 — Article 3 / Section 21
MS Const., Article 3, Section 21
Status: in_force

. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in case of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it, nor ever without the authority of the legislature.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 153 — Article 6 / Section 153
MS Const., Article 6, Section 153
Status: in_force

. The judges of the circuit courts and of the chancery courts shall be appointed by the governor, with the advise and consent of the senate, and shall hold their offices for the term of four years.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 40 — Article 4 / Section 40
MS Const., Article 4, Section 40
Status: in_force

. Members of the legislature before entering upon ​ the discharge of their duties shall take the following oath: “I, ———— , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully support the constitution of the United States and of the State of Mississippi; that I am not disqualified from holding office by the constitution of this State; that I will faithfully discharge my duties as a legislator; that I will, as soon as practicable hereafter, carefully read (or have read to me) the constitution of this State, and will endeavor to note, and as a legislator, to execute all the requirements thereof imposed on the legislature; and I will not vote for any measure or person because of a promise of any other member of this legislature to vote for any measure or person, or as a means of influencing him or them to do so. So help me God.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 50 — Article 4 / Section 50
MS Const., Article 4, Section 50
Status: in_force

. The governor, and all other civil officers of this State, shall be liable to impeachment for treason, bribery, or any high crime or misdemeanor in office.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 35 — Article 4 / Section 35
MS Const., Article 4, Section 35
Status: in_force

. The senate shall consist of members to be chosen every four years by the qualified electors of the several districts.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 281 — Article 15 / Section 281
MS Const., Article 15, Section 281
Status: in_force

. All fines, penalties, forfeitures and escheats accruing to the State of Mississippi under the constitution and laws heretofore in force shall accrue to the use of the State of Mississippi under this constitution, except as herein otherwise provided.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 33 — Article 4 / Section 33
MS Const., Article 4, Section 33
Status: in_force

. The legislative power of this State shall be vested in the legislature, which shall consist of a senate and a house of representatives.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 168 — Article 6 / Section 168
MS Const., Article 6, Section 168
Status: in_force

. The clerk of the supreme court shall be elected as other State officers for the term of four years, and the clerk of the circuit court and the clerk of the chancery court shall be selected in each county in the manner provided by law, and shall hold office for the term of four years, and the legislature shall provide by law what duties shall be performed during vacation by the clerks of the circuit and chancery courts subject to the approval of the court.
Ms. Const. art. 12, § 250 — Article 12 / Section 250
MS Const., Article 12, Section 250
Status: in_force

. All qualified electors and no others shall be eligible to office except as otherwise provided in this constitution.
Ms. Const. art. 10, § 226 — Article 10 / Section 226
MS Const., Article 10, Section 226
Status: in_force

. Convicts sentenced to the county jail shall not be hired or leased to any person or corporation outside the county of their conviction, after the first day of January, A. D., 1893, nor for a term which shall extend beyond that date.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 3 — Article 15 / Section 3
MS Const., Article 15, Section 3
Status: in_force

A general election shall be held under this constitution on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1891, for three railroad commissioners and for members of the legislature, district attorneys and county and county district officers, whose terms shall expire on the first Monday in January, A. D., 1896.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 24 — Article 3 / Section 24
MS Const., Article 3, Section 24
Status: in_force

. All courts shall be open; and every person for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice shall be administered without sale, denial or delay.
Ms. Const. art. 7, § 197 — Article 7 / Section 197
MS Const., Article 7, Section 197
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall not grant to any foreign corporation or association, a license to build, operate or lease ​ railroad in this State; but in all cases where a railroad is to be built or operated, and the same shall be partly in this State and partly in another State, or in other States, the owners or projectors thereof shall first become incorporated under the laws of this State; nor shall any foreign corporation or association lease or operate any railroad in this State or purchase the same, or any interest therein; consolidation of any railroad lines and corporations in this State with others shall be allowed only where the consolidated company shall become a domestic corporation of this State. No general or special law shall ever be passed for the benefit of any foreign corporation operating a railroad under an existing license from this State, or under an existing lease; and no grant of any right or privilege, and no exemption from any burden, shall be made to any such foreign corporation except upon the condition that the owners or stockholders thereof shall first organize a corporation in this State under the laws thereof, and shall thereafter operate and manage the same, and the business thereof under said domestic charter.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 43 — Article 4 / Section 43
MS Const., Article 4, Section 43
Status: in_force

. No person liable as principal for public moneys unaccounted for shall be eligible to a seat in either house of the legislature, or to any office of profit or trust, until he shall have accounted for and paid over all sums for which he may have been liable.
Ms. Const. art. 8, § 204 — Article 8 / Section 204
MS Const., Article 8, Section 204
Status: in_force

. There shall be a superintendent of public education in each county, who shall be appointed by the board of education by and with the advice and consent of the senate, whose term of office shall be four years, and whose qualifications, compensation and duties, shall be prescribed by law; provided, that the legislature shall have power to make the office of county school superintendent of the several counties elective, or may otherwise provide for the discharge of the duties of county superintendent, or abolish said office.
Ms. Const. art. 14, § 269 — Article 14 / Section 269
MS Const., Article 14, Section 269
Status: in_force

. Every devise or bequest of lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any interest therein, of freehold, or less than freehold, either present or future, vested or contingent, or of any money directed to be raised by the sale thereof, contained in any last will and testament, or codicil, or other testamentary writing, in favor of any religious or ecclesiastical corporation, sole or aggregate, or any religious or ecclesiastical society, or to any religious denomination, or association of persons, or to any person or body politic, in trust, either expressed or implied, secret or resulting, either for the use and benefit of such religious corporation, society, denomination or association, or for the purpose of being given or appropriated to charitable uses or purposes, shall be null and void, and the heir-at-law shall take the same property so devised or bequeathed, as though no testamentary disposition had been made.
Ms. Const. art. 15, § 273 — Article 15 / Section 273
MS Const., Article 15, Section 273
Status: in_force

. Whenever two-thirds of each house of the legis ​ lature shall deem any change, alteration, or amendment necessary to this constitution, such proposed change, alteration or amendment shall be read and passed by a two-thirds vote of each house respectively, on each day, for three several days; public notice shall then be given by the secretary of state, at least three months preceding an election, at which the qualified electors shall vote directly for or against such change, alteration or amendment; and if more than one amendment shall be submitted at one time, they shall be submitted in such manner and form that the people may vote for or against each amendment separately; and if it shall appear that a majority of the qualified electors voting, shall have voted for the proposed change, alteration or amendment, then it shall be inserted by the next succeeding legislature as a part of this constitution, and not otherwise. Schedule. That no inconvenience may arise from the changes in the Constitution of this State, and in order to carry the new Constitution into complete operation, it is hereby declared that—
Ms. Const. art. 5, § 128 — Article 5 / Section 128
MS Const., Article 5, Section 128
Status: in_force

. There shall be a lieutenant-governor, who shall be elected at the same time, in the same manner, and for the same term, and who shall possess the same qualifications as required of the governor.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 5 — Article 3 / Section 5
MS Const., Article 3, Section 5
Status: in_force

. All political power is vested in, and derived from, the people; all government of right originates with the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely or the good of the whole.
Ms. Const. art. 3, § 17 — Article 3 / Section 17
MS Const., Article 3, Section 17
Status: in_force

. Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use except on due compensation being first made to the owner or owners thereof, in a manner to be prescribed by law; and whenever an attempt is made to take private property for a use alleged to be public, the question whether the contemplated use be public shall be a judicial question, and as such determined without regard to legislative assertion that the use is public.
Ms. Const. art. 6, § 154 — Article 6 / Section 154
MS Const., Article 6, Section 154
Status: in_force

. No person shall be eligible to the office of judge of the circuit court or of the chancery court, who shall not have been a practicing lawyer for five years, and who shall not have attained the age of twenty-six years, and who shall not have been five years a citizen of this State.
Ms. Const. art. 4, § 66 — Article 4 / Section 66
MS Const., Article 4, Section 66
Status: in_force

. No law granting a donation, or gratuity, in favor of any person or object shall be enacted, except by the concurrence of two-thirds of each branch of the legislature, nor by any vote for a sectarian purpose or use.
Ms. Const. art. 9, § 215 — Article 9 / Section 215
MS Const., Article 9, Section 215
Status: in_force

. The legislature shall provide for the organizing, arming, equipping and discipline of the militia, and for paying the same when called into active service.