§ 1. Atheists disqualified from holding office or testifying as witness. No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in…
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…