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Preamble -
Article I
Section 1 - All men are by nature free and equal, and have...
Section 2 - All political power is inherent in the people. Government is...
Section 3 - The state of Idaho is an inseparable part of the...
Section 4 - The exercise and enjoyment of religious faith and worship shall...
Section 5 - The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not...
Section 6 - All persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for...
Section 7 - The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate; but...
Section 8 - No person shall be held to answer for any felony...
Section 9 - Every person may freely speak, write and publish on all...
Section 10 - The people shall have the right to assemble in a...
Section 11 - The people have the right to keep and bear arms,...
Section 12 - The military shall be subordinate to the civil power; and...
Section 13 - In all criminal prosecutions, the party accused shall have the...
Section 14 - The necessary use of lands for the construction of reservoirs...
Section 15 - There shall be no imprisonment for debt in this state...
Section 16 - No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law...
Section 17 - The right of the people to be secure in their...
Section 18 - Courts of justice shall be open to every person, and...
Section 19 - No power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere...
Section 20 - No property qualifications shall ever be required for any person...
Section 21 - This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to impair...
Section 22 - Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize a...
Section 23 - The rights to hunt, fish and trap, including by the...
Article II
Section 1 - The powers of the government of this state are divided...
Article III
Section 1 - The people reserve to themselves the power to propose laws,...
Section 2 - (6) A member of the commission shall be precluded from...
Section 3 - The senators and representatives shall be elected for the term...
Section 4 - The members of the legislature following the decennial census of...
Section 5 - A senatorial or representative district, when more than one county...
Section 6 - No person shall be a senator or representative who, at...
Section 7 - Senators and representatives in all cases, except for treason, felony,...
Section 8 - (2) The legislature, while remaining a part-time, citizen legislature, must...
Section 9 - Each house when assembled shall choose its own officers; judge...
Section 10 - A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to...
Section 11 - Each house may, for good cause shown, with the concurrence...
Section 12 - The business of each house, and of the committee of...
Section 13 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings; and...
Section 14 - Bills may originate in either house, but may be amended...
Section 15 - No law shall be passed except by bill, nor shall...
Section 16 - Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly...
Section 17 - Every act or joint resolution shall be plainly worded, avoiding...
Section 18 - No act shall be revised or amended by mere reference...
Section 19 - Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace...
Section 20 - b. Games that award only additional play.
Section 21 - All bills or joint resolutions passed shall be signed by...
Section 22 - No act shall take effect until sixty days from the...
Section 23 - When convened in extra session by the governor, no such...
Section 24 - The first concern of all good government is the virtue...
Section 25 - The members of the legislature shall, before they enter upon...
Section 26 - From and after the thirty-first day of December in the...
Section 27 - In the exercise of the powers hereby conferred, the legislature...
Section 28 - A marriage between a man and a woman is the...
Article IV
Section 1 - The executive department shall consist of a governor, lieutenant governor,...
Section 2 - The officers named in section 1 of this article shall...
Section 3 - No person shall be eligible to the office of governor...
Section 4 - The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military forces of...
Section 5 - The supreme executive power of the state is vested in...
Section 6 - The governor shall nominate and, by and with the consent...
Section 7 - The governor shall have power to grant respites or reprieves...
Section 8 - The governor may require information in writing from the officers...
Section 9 - The governor may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the legislature by...
Section 10 - Every bill passed by the legislature shall, before it becomes...
Section 11 - The governor shall have power to disapprove of any item...
Section 12 - In case of the failure to qualify, the impeachment, or...
Section 13 - The lieutenant governor shall be president of the senate, but...
Section 14 - In case of the failure to qualify in his office,...
Section 15 - There shall be a seal of this state, which shall...
Section 16 - All grants and permissions shall be in the name and...
Section 17 - An account shall be kept by the officers of the...
Section 18 - The governor, secretary of state, and attorney-general shall constitute a...
Section 20 - All executive and administrative officers, agencies, and instrumentalities of the...
Article V
Section 1 - Feigned issues are prohibited, and the fact at issue shall...
Section 2 - The judicial power of the state shall be vested in...
Section 3 - The court for the trial of impeachments shall be the...
Section 4 - The house of representatives solely shall have the power of...
Section 5 - Treason against the state shall consist only in levying war...
Section 6 - The Supreme Court shall consist of five justices, a majority...
Section 7 - No justice of the Supreme Court shall be eligible to...
Section 8 - At least four (4) terms of the Supreme Court shall...
Section 9 - The Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction to review, upon appeal,...
Section 10 - The Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction to hear claims...
Section 11 - The state shall be divided into five (5) judicial districts,...
Section 12 - Every judge of the district court shall reside in the...
Section 13 - The legislature shall have no power to deprive the judicial...
Section 14 - The legislature may provide for the establishment of special courts...
Section 15 - The clerk of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by...
Section 16 - A clerk of the district court for each county shall...
Section 17 - The salary of the justices of the Supreme Court, the...
Section 18 - A prosecuting attorney shall be elected for each organized county...
Section 19 - All vacancies occurring in the offices provided for by this...
Section 20 - The district court shall have original jurisdiction in all cases,...
Section 23 - No person shall be eligible to the office of district...
Section 24 - First District—Shoshone and Kootenai. Second District—Latah, Nez Perce, and Idaho....
Section 25 - The judges of the district courts shall, on or before...
Section 26 - All laws relating to courts shall be general and of...
Section 27 - The legislature may by law diminish or increase the compensation...
Section 28 - Provisions for the retirement, discipline and removal from office of...
Article VI
Section 1 - All elections by the people must be by ballot. An...
Section 2 - Every male or female citizen of the United States, eighteen...
Section 3 - No person is permitted to vote, serve as a juror,...
Section 4 - The legislature may prescribe qualifications, limitations, and conditions for the...
Section 5 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed...
Section 6 - Every public officer in the state of Idaho, excepting the...
Section 7 - The selection of justices of the Supreme Court and district...
Article VII
Section 1 - The fiscal year shall commence on the second Monday of...
Section 2 - The legislature shall provide such revenue as may be needful,...
Section 3 - The word “property” as herein used shall be defined and...
Section 4 - The property of the United States, except when taxation thereof...
Section 5 - All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of...
Section 6 - The legislature shall not impose taxes for the purpose of...
Section 7 - All taxes levied for state purposes shall be paid into...
Section 8 - The power to tax corporations or corporate property, both real...
Section 9 - The rate of taxation of real and personal property for...
Section 10 - The making of profit, directly or indirectly, out of state,...
Section 11 - No appropriation shall be made, nor any expenditure authorized by...
Section 12 - There shall be a state tax commission consisting of four...
Section 13 - No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in...
Section 14 - No money shall be drawn from the county treasuries except...
Section 15 - The legislature shall provide by law, such a system of...
Section 16 - The legislature shall pass all laws necessary to carry out...
Section 17 - On and after July 1, 1941 the proceeds from the...
Section 18 - There is hereby created in the state treasury an Idaho...
Article VIII
Section 1 - The legislature shall not in any manner create any debt...
Section 2 - (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), there is hereby...
Section 2a - (4) For purposes of this section, “municipality” shall include any...
Section 3 - No county, city, board of education, or school district, or...
Section 3a - Counties of the state may in the manner prescribed by...
Section 3b - Port districts may acquire, construct, install, and equip facilities or...
Section 3c - (iii) enter into joint ventures and partnerships; (iv) form or...
Section 3d - (a) acquire, construct, install and equip electric generating, transmission and...
Section 3e - Political subdivisions of the state and regional airport authorities as...
Section 4 - No county, city, town, township, board of education, or school...
Section 5 - The counties or cities shall never exercise their respective attributes...
Article IX
Section 1 - The stability of a republican form of government depending mainly...
Section 2 - The general supervision of the state educational institutions and public...
Section 3 - The public school permanent endowment fund of the state shall...
Section 4 - The public school permanent endowment fund of the state shall...
Section 5 - Neither the legislature nor any county, city, town, township, school...
Section 6 - No religious test or qualification shall ever be required of...
Section 7 - The governor, superintendent of public instruction, secretary of state, attorney...
Section 8 - It shall be the duty of the state board of...
Section 9 - The legislature may require by law that every child shall...
Section 10 - The location of the University of Idaho, as established by...
Section 11 - The permanent endowment funds other than funds arising from the...
Article X
Section 1 - Educational, reformatory, and penal institutions, and those for the benefit...
Section 2 - The seat of government of the state of Idaho shall...
Section 3 - The legislature may submit the question of the location of...
Section 4 - All property and institutions of the territory, shall, upon the...
Section 5 - The state legislature shall establish a nonpartisan board to be...
Section 7 - The legislature for sanitary reasons may cause the removal to...
Article XI
Section 1 - All existing charters or grants of special or exclusive privileges,...
Section 2 - No charter of incorporation shall be granted, extended, changed or...
Section 3 - The legislature may provide by law for altering, revoking, or...
Section 4 - The Legislature shall not prohibit corporations from electing directors by...
Section 5 - All railroads shall be public highways, and all railroad, transportation,...
Section 6 - All individuals, associations, and corporations, similarly situated, shall have equal...
Section 7 - No corporation other than municipal corporations in existence at the...
Section 8 - The right of eminent domain shall never be abridged, nor...
Section 9 - No corporation shall issue stocks or bonds, except for labor...
Section 10 - No foreign corporation shall do any business in this state...
Section 11 - No street, or other railroad, shall be constructed within any...
Section 12 - The legislature shall pass no law for the benefit of...
Section 13 - Any association or corporation, or the lessees or managers thereof,...
Section 14 - If any railroad, telegraph, express, or other corporation, organized under...
Section 15 - The legislature shall not pass any law permitting the leasing...
Section 16 - The term “corporation” as used in this article, shall be...
Section 17 - Dues from private corporations shall be secured by such means...
Section 18 - That no incorporated company or any association of persons or...
Article XII
Section 1 - The legislature shall provide by general laws for the incorporation,...
Section 2 - Any county or incorporated city or town may make and...
Section 3 - The state shall never assume the debts of any county,...
Section 4 - No county, town, city, or other municipal corporation, by vote...
Article XIII
Section 1 - There shall be established a bureau of immigration, labor and...
Section 2 - Not more than eight (8) hours actual work shall constitute...
Section 4 - The employment of children under the age of fourteen (14)...
Section 5 - No person, not a citizen of the United States, or...
Section 6 - The legislature shall provide by proper legislation for giving to...
Section 7 - The legislature may establish boards of arbitration whose duty it...
Section 8 - The commissioner of immigration, labor and statistics shall perform such...
Article XIV
Section 1 - All able-bodied male persons, residents of this state, between the...
Section 2 - The legislature shall provide by law for the enrolment, equipment...
Section 3 - All militia officers shall be commissioned by the governor, the...
Section 4 - All military records, banners, and relics of the state, except...
Section 5 - All military organizations under the laws of this state shall...
Section 6 - No armed police force, or detective agency, or armed body...
Article XV
Section 1 - The use of all waters now appropriated, or that may...
Section 2 - The right to collect rates or compensation for the use...
Section 3 - The right to divert and appropriate the unappropriated waters of...
Section 4 - Whenever any waters have been, or shall be, appropriated or...
Section 5 - Whenever more than one person has settled upon, or improved...
Section 6 - The legislature shall provide by law, the manner in which...
Section 7 - There shall be constituted a Water Resource Agency, composed as...
Article XVI
Section 1 - The legislature shall pass all necessary laws to provide for...
Article XVII
Section 1 - The name of this state is Idaho, and its boundaries...
Article XVIII
Section 1 - The several counties of the territory of Idaho, as they...
Section 2 - No county seat shall be removed unless upon petition of...
Section 3 - No county shall be divided unless a majority of the...
Section 4 - No new counties shall be established which shall reduce any...
Section 4a - Counties of the state of Idaho as they now exist,...
Section 5 - The legislature shall establish, subject to the provisions of this...
Section 6 - The legislature by general and uniform laws shall, commencing with...
Section 7 - All county officers and deputies when allowed, shall receive, as...
Section 8 - The compensation provided in section seven for the officers therein...
Section 9 - The neglect or refusal of any county officer or deputy...
Section 10 - The board of county commissioners shall consist of three (3)...
Section 11 - County, township, and precinct officers shall perform such duties as...
Section 12 - The legislature by general law may provide for optional forms...
Article XIX
Section 1 - The sixteenth shall consist of the county of Washington, and...
Section 2 - The counties of Bingham, Logan and Alturas, one member.
Article XX
Section 1 - Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed...
Section 2 - If two or more amendments are proposed, they shall be...
Section 3 - Whenever two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of...
Section 4 - Any Constitution adopted by such convention, shall have no validity...
Article XXI
Section 1 - That no inconvenience may arise from a change of the...
Section 2 - All laws now in force in the territory of Idaho...
Section 3 - All fines, penalties, forfeitures, and escheats accruing to the territory...
Section 4 - All recognizances, bonds, obligations, or other undertakings heretofore taken, or...
Section 5 - All officers, civil and military, now holding their offices and...
Section 6 - This Constitution shall be submitted for adoption or rejection, to...
Section 7 - This Constitution shall take effect and be in full force...
Section 8 - Immediately upon the admission of the territory as a state,...
Section 9 - The board of commissioners of the several counties shall thereupon...
Section 10 - The governor, secretary, controller and attorney general of the territory,...
Section 11 - The canvassing boards of the several counties shall issue certificates...
Section 12 - All officers elected at such election shall, within thirty days...
Section 13 - All officers elected at said election, shall hold their offices...
Section 14 - The governor elect of the state, immediately upon his qualifying...
Section 15 - The legislature shall pass all necessary laws to carry into...
Section 16 - Whenever any two (2) of the judges of the Supreme...
Section 17 - Until otherwise provided by law, the seals now in use...
Section 18 - Whenever this Constitution shall go into effect, the books, records,...
Section 19 - It is ordained by the state of Idaho that perfect...
Section 20 - That in behalf of the people of Idaho, we, in...