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Judicial Circuits Until otherwise provided by the General Assembly, the Judicial Circuits shall be composed of the following counties: First — Phillips, Lee, St. Francis, Prairie, Woodruff, White and Monroe. Second — Mississippi, Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett, Craighead, Greene, Clayton and…

§ 1.   Common carriers — Construction of railroads. All railroads, canals and turnpikes shall be public highways, and all railroads and canal companies shall be common carriers. Any association or corporation, organized for the purpose, shall have the right to…

§ 1.   Lending credit — Bond issues — Interest-bearing warrants. Neither the State nor any city, county, town or other municipality in this State shall ever lend its credit for any purpose whatever; nor shall any county, city or town…

§ 1.   Officers subject to impeachment — Grounds. The Governor and all State officers, Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, Chancellors and Prosecuting Attorneys, shall be liable to impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors, and gross misconduct in office;…

Article 14 Education § 1.   Free school system. Intelligence and virtue being the safeguards of liberty and the bulwark of a free and good government, the State shall ever maintain a general, suitable and efficient system of free public schools…

§ 1.   Size of counties — Exceptions. No county now established shall be reduced to an area of less than six hundred square miles, nor to less than five thousand inhabitants: nor shall any new county be established with less…

§ 1.   Revocation of certain charters. All existing charters or grants of special or exclusive privileges, under a bona fide organization shall not have taken place, and business been commenced in good faith, at the time of the adoption of…

Article 11 Militia § 1.   Persons liable to military duty. The militia shall consist of all able-bodied male persons, residents of the State, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years; except such as may be exempted by the laws…

§ 1.   Mining, manufacturing and agricultural bureau — State aid. The General Assembly shall pass such laws as will foster and aid the agricultural, mining and manufacturing interests of the State, and may create a bureau, to be known as…

§ 1.   Personal property exemptions of persons not heads of families. The personal property of any resident of this State, who is not married or the head of a family, in specific articles to be selected by such resident, not…

§ 1.   Board of apportionment created — Powers and duties. A Board to be known as “The Board of Apportionment,” consisting of the Governor (who shall be Chairman), the Secretary of State and the Attorney General is hereby created and…

§ 1 — 18.   [Repealed.] § 19.   Circuit clerks — Election — Term of office — Ex-officio duties — County clerks elected in certain counties. The clerks of the circuit courts shall be elected by the qualified electors of the…

§ 1.   Executive officers. The executive department of this State shall consist of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer of State, Auditor of State and Attorney General, all of whom shall keep their offices in person at the…

§ 1.   Initiative and Referendum. The legislative power of the people of this State shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of the Senate and House of Representatives, but the people reserve to themselves the power to…

Article 4 Departments § 1.   Departments of government. The powers of the government of the State of Arkansas shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of them to be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to-wit: Those which…

§ 1.   Qualifications of electors. Except as otherwise provided by this Constitution, any person may vote in an election in this state who is: § 2.   Right of suffrage. Elections shall be free and equal. No power, civil or military,…

Article 2 Declaration of Rights § 1.   Source of power. All political power is inherent in the people and government is instituted for their protection, security and benefit; and they have the right to alter, reform or abolish the same,…

Article 1 – Boundaries We do declare and establish, ratify and confirm, the following as the permanent boundaries of the State of Arkansas, that is to say: Beginning at the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi River, on…

Preamble Preamble. We, the People of the State of Arkansas, grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government; for our civil and religious liberty; and desiring to perpetuate its blessings, and secure the same…