Mississippi constitution

Section 1 - The powers of the government of the state of Mississippi...

Section 2 - No person or collection of persons, being one or belonging...

Section 4 - The legislature shall have power to consent to the acquisition...

Section 5 - All political power is vested in, and derived from, the...

Section 6 - The people of this state have the inherent, sole, and...

Section 7 - The right to withdraw from the Federal Union on account...

Section 8 - All persons, resident in this state, citizens of the United...

Section 9 - The military shall be in strict subordination to the civil...

Section 10 - Treason against the state shall consist only in levying war...

Section 11 - The right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition...

Section 12 - The right of every citizen to keep and bear arms...

Section 13 - The freedom of speech and of the press shall be...

Section 14 - No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property...

Section 15 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in this...

Section 16 - Ex post facto laws, or laws impairing the obligation of...

Section 17 - Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public...

Section 18 - No religious test as a qualification for office shall be...

Section 20 - No person shall be elected or appointed to office in...

Section 21 - The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not...

Section 22 - No person's life or liberty shall be twice placed in...

Section 23 - The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, and...

Section 24 - All courts shall be open; and every person for an...

Section 25 - No person shall be debarred from prosecuting or defending any...

Section 26 - In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have a right...

Section 26-a - (3) The Legislature shall have the authority to enact substantive...

Section 27 - No person shall, for any indictable offense, be proceeded against...

Section 28 - Cruel or unusual punishment shall not be inflicted, nor excessive...

Section 29 - (4) In any case where bail is denied before conviction,...

Section 30 - There shall be no imprisonment for debt.

Section 31 - The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate, but...

Section 32 - The enumeration of rights in this constitution shall not be...

Section 33 - The legislative power of this state shall be vested in...

Section 34 - The house of representatives shall consist of members chosen every...

Section 35 - The senate shall consist of members chosen every four years...

Section 36 - The Legislature shall meet at the seat of government in...

Section 37 - Elections for members of the legislature shall be held in...

Section 38 - Each house shall elect its own officers, and shall judge...

Section 39 - The senate shall choose a president pro tempore to act...

Section 40 - Members of the legislature, before entering upon the discharge of...

Section 41 - No person shall be a member of the House of...

Section 42 - No person shall be a senator who shall not have...

Section 43 - No person liable as principal for public moneys unaccounted for...

Section 44 - (3) This section shall not disqualify a person from holding...

Section 45 - No senator or representative, during the term for which he...

Section 46 - The members of the legislature shall severally receive from the...

Section 47 - No member of the legislature shall take any fee or...

Section 48 - Senators and representatives shall, in all cases, except treason, felony,...

Section 49 - The house of representatives shall have the sole power of...

Section 50 - The governor and all other civil officers of this state,...

Section 51 - Judgment in such cases shall not extend further than removal...

Section 52 - When the governor shall be tried, the chief justice of...

Section 53 - For reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient ground of...

Section 54 - A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to...

Section 55 - Each house may determine rules of its own proceedings, punish...

Section 56 - The style of the laws of the state shall be:...

Section 57 - Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn...

Section 58 - The doors of each house, when in session, or in...

Section 59 - Bills may originate in either house, and be amended or...

Section 60 - No bill shall be so amended in its passage through...

Section 61 - No law shall be revived or amended by reference to...

Section 62 - No amendment to bills by one house shall be concurred...

Section 63 - No appropriation bill shall be passed by the legislature which...

Section 64 - No bill passed after the adoption of this Constitution to...

Section 65 - All votes on the final passage of any measure shall...

Section 66 - No law granting a donation or gratuity in favor of...

Section 67 - No new bill shall be introduced into either house of...

Section 68 - Appropriation and revenue bills shall, at regular sessions of the...

Section 69 - General appropriation bills shall contain only the appropriations to defray...

Section 70 - No revenue bill, or any bill providing for assessments of...

Section 71 - Every bill introduced into the legislature shall have a title,...

Section 72 - Every Bill which shall pass both Houses shall be presented...

Section 73 - The governor may veto parts of any appropriation bill, and...

Section 74 - No bill shall become a law until it shall have...

Section 75 - No law of a general nature, unless therein otherwise provided,...

Section 76 - In all elections by the legislature the members shall vote...

Section 77 - The governor shall issue writs of election to fill such...

Section 78 - It shall be the duty of the legislature to regulate...

Section 79 - The legislature shall provide by law for the sale of...

Section 80 - Provision shall be made by general laws to prevent the...

Section 81 - The Legislature shall never authorize the permanent obstruction of any...

Section 82 - The legislature shall fix the amount of the penalty of...

Section 83 - The legislature shall enact laws to secure the safety of...

Section 84 - The legislature shall enact laws to limit, restrict, or prevent...

Section 85 - The legislature shall provide by general law for the working...

Section 86 - It shall be the duty of the legislature to provide...

Section 87 - No special or local law shall be enacted for the...

Section 88 - The legislature shall pass general laws, under which local and...

Section 89 - There shall be appointed in each house of the legislature...

Section 90 - (a) Granting divorces; (b) Changing the names of persons, places,...

Section 91 - The legislature shall not enact any law for one or...

Section 92 - The legislature shall not authorize payment to any person of...

Section 93 - The legislature shall not retire any officer on pay, or...

Section 94 - The legislature shall never create by law any distinction between...

Section 95 - Lands belonging to, or under the control of the state,...

Section 96 - The legislature shall never grant extra compensation, fee, or allowance,...

Section 97 - The legislature shall have no power to revive any remedy...

Section 99 - The Legislature shall not elect any other than its own...

Section 100 - No obligation or liability of any person, association, or corporation...

Section 101 - The seat of government of the state shall be at...

Section 102 - All general elections for state and county officers shall commence...

Section 103 - In all cases, not otherwise provided for in this constitution,...

Section 104 - Statutes of limitation in civil causes shall not run against...

Section 106 - There shall be a state librarian, to be chosen by...

Section 107 - All stationery, printing, paper, and fuel, used by the legislature,...

Section 108 - Whenever the legislature shall take away the duties pertaining to...

Section 109 - No public officer or member of the legislature shall be...

Section 110 - The legislature may provide, by general law, for condemning rights...

Section 111 - All lands comprising a single tract sold in pursuance of...

Section 112 - The Legislature may, by general law, establish acreage limitations on...

Section 113 - The auditor shall, within sixty days after the adjournment of...

Section 114 - Returns of all elections by the people shall be made...

Section 115 - Neither the State nor any of its direct agencies, excluding...

Section 116 - The chief executive power of this state shall be vested...

Section 117 - The governor shall be at least thirty years of age,...

Section 118 - The governor shall receive for his services such compensation as...

Section 119 - The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the army and navy...

Section 120 - The governor may require information in writing from the officers...

Section 121 - The governor shall have power to convene the legislature in...

Section 122 - The governor shall, from time to time, give the legislature...

Section 123 - The governor shall see that the laws are faithfully executed.

Section 124 - In all criminal and penal cases, excepting those of treason...

Section 125 - The governor shall have the power, and it is hereby...

Section 126 - There shall be a seal of the state kept by...

Section 127 - All commissions shall be in the name and by the...

Section 128 - There shall be a Lieutenant Governor who shall be elected...

Section 129 - The lieutenant-governor shall, by virtue of his office, be president...

Section 130 - The lieutenant-governor shall receive for his services the same compensation...

Section 131 - When the office of Governor shall become vacant, by death...

Section 132 - In case the election for lieutenant-governor shall be contested, the...

Section 133 - There shall be a secretary of state, who shall be...

Section 134 - A State Treasurer and an Auditor of Public Accounts shall...

Section 135 - Effective January 1, 1964, there shall be a sheriff, coroner,...

Section 136 - All officers named in this article shall hold their offices...

Section 138 - The sheriff, coroner, assessor, surveyor, clerks of courts, and members...

Section 139 - The legislature may empower the governor to remove and appoint...

Section 140 - The Governor of the state and all statewide elected officials...

Section 144 - The judicial power of the state shall be vested in...

Section 145 - The Supreme Court shall consist of three judges, any two...

Section 145-a - The Supreme Court shall consist of six judges, that is...

Section 145-b - The Supreme Court shall consist of nine judges, that is...

Section 146 - The Supreme Court shall have such jurisdiction as properly belongs...

Section 147 - No judgment or decree in any chancery or circuit court...

Section 148 - The Supreme Court shall be held twice in each year...

Section 149 - The term of office of the judges of the Supreme...

Section 149-a - The Supreme Court shall have power, under such rules and...

Section 150 - No personal shall be eligible to the office of judge...

Section 152 - The circuit and chancery court districts established by the Legislature...

Section 153 - The judges of the circuit and chancery courts shall be...

Section 154 - No person shall be eligible to the office of judge...

Section 155 - The judges of the several courts of this state shall,...

Section 156 - The circuit court shall have original jurisdiction in all matters...

Section 157 - All causes that may be brought in the circuit court...

Section 158 - A circuit court shall be held in each county at...

Section 159 - (a) All matters in equity; (b) Divorce and alimony; (c)...

Section 160 - And in addition to the jurisdiction heretofore exercised by the...

Section 161 - And the chancery court shall have jurisdiction, concurrent with the...

Section 162 - All causes that may be brought in the chancery court...

Section 163 - The legislature shall provide by law for the due certification...

Section 164 - A chancery court shall be held in each county at...

Section 165 - No judge of any court shall preside on the trial...

Section 166 - The judges of the Supreme Court, of the circuit courts,...

Section 167 - All civil officers shall be conservators of the peace, and...

Section 168 - The clerk of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by...

Section 169 - The style of all process shall be "The State of...

Section 170 - Each county shall be divided into five districts, a resident...

Section 171 - All references in the Mississippi Code to justice of the...

Section 172 - The legislature shall, from time to time, establish such other...

Section 172-a - Neither the Supreme Court nor any inferior court of this...

Section 173 - There shall be an attorney-general elected at the same time...

Section 174 - A district attorney for each circuit court district shall be...

Section 175 - All public officers, for wilful neglect of duty or misdemeanor...

Section 176 - No person shall be a member of the board of...

Section 177 - The governor shall have power to fill any vacancy which...

Section 177-a - All proceedings before the commission shall be confidential, except upon...

Section 178 - Corporations shall be formed under general laws only. The Legislature...

Section 179 - The legislature shall never remit the forfeiture of the franchise...

Section 180 - All existing charters or grants of corporate franchise under which...

Section 181 - The property of all private corporations for pecuniary gain shall...

Section 182 - The power to tax corporations and their property shall never...

Section 183 - No county, city, town, or other municipal corporation shall hereafter...

Section 184 - All railroads which carry persons or property for hire shall...

Section 185 - The rolling-stock belonging to any railroad company or corporation in...

Section 186 - The legislature shall pass laws to prevent abuses, unjust discrimination,...

Section 188 - No railroad or other transportation company shall grant free passes...

Section 190 - The exercise of the right of eminent domain shall never...

Section 191 - The legislature shall provide for the protection of the employees...

Section 192 - Provision shall be made by general laws whereby cities and...

Section 193 - Every employee of any railroad corporation shall have the same...

Section 195 - Express, telegraph, telephone, and sleeping-car companies are declared common carriers...

Section 198 - The legislature shall enact laws to prevent all trusts, combinations,...

Section 198-a - The provisions of this section shall not apply to any...

Section 199 - The term "corporation" used in this article shall include all...

Section 200 - The legislature shall enforce the provisions of this article by...

Section 201 - The Legislature shall, by general law, provide for the establishment,...

Section 202 - (2) From and after July 1, 1984, there shall be...

Section 203 - (2) From and after July 1, 1984, there shall be...

Section 204 - There shall be a superintendent of public education in each...

Section 206 - There shall be a state common-school fund, to be taken...

Section 206-a - The principal of the trust fund shall remain inviolate and...

Section 208 - No religious or other sect or sects shall ever control...

Section 209 - It shall be the duty of the legislature to provide...

Section 210 - No public officer of this state, or any district, county,...

Section 211 - (2) Notwithstanding any limitation on the terms of leases provided...

Section 212 - The rate of interest on the fund known as the...

Section 213 - The state having received and appropriated the land donated to...

Section 213-a - Nothing herein contained shall in any way limit or take...

Section 214 - All able-bodied male citizens of the state between the ages...

Section 215 - The legislature shall provide for the organizing, arming, equipping, and...

Section 216 - All officers of militia, except non-commissioned officers, shall be appointed...

Section 217 - The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the militia, except when...

Section 218 - The governor shall nominate, and, by and with the consent...

Section 219 - The adjutant-general, and other staff officers to the commander-in-chief, shall...

Section 220 - The militia shall be exempt from arrest during their attendance...

Section 221 - The legislature is hereby required to make an annual appropriation...

Section 222 - The legislature shall empower the board of supervisors of each...

Section 224 - The legislature may authorize the employment under state supervision and...

Section 225 - The Legislature may place the convicts on a state farm...

Section 226 - Convicts sentenced to the county jail shall not be hired...

Section 227 - A levee system shall be maintained in the state as...

Section 228 - The division heretofore made by the legislature of the alluvial...

Section 229 - And in the counties having two judicial districts and from...

Section 230 - All of said commissioners shall be qualified electors of the...

Section 231 - The term of office of said commissioners shall be four...

Section 232 - The commissioners of said levee districts shall have supervision of...

Section 233 - The levee boards shall have, and are hereby granted, authority...

Section 234 - No bill changing the boundaries of the district, or affecting...

Section 235 - Each levee board shall make, at the end of each...

Section 236 - The legislature shall impose for levee purposes, in addition to...

Section 237 - The legislature shall have full power to provide such system...

Section 238 - No property situated between the levee and the Mississippi river...

Section 239 - The legislature shall require the levee boards to publish at...

Section 240 - All elections by the people shall be by ballot.

Section 241 - Every inhabitant of this state, except idiots and insane persons,...

Section 242 - The legislature shall provide by law for the registration of...

Section 244-a - The legislature shall have the power to prescribe and enforce...

Section 245 - Electors in municipal elections shall possess all the qualifications herein...

Section 246 - Prior to the first day of January, A.D. 1896, the...

Section 247 - The legislature shall enact laws to secure fairness in party...

Section 248 - Suitable remedies by appeal or otherwise shall be provided by...

Section 249 - No one shall be allowed to vote for members of...

Section 250 - All qualified electors and no others shall be eligible to...

Section 251 - Electors shall not be registered within four months next before...

Section 252 - The term of office of all elective officers under this...

Section 253 - The legislature may, by a two-thirds vote of both houses,...

Section 254 - The legislature shall at its regular session in the second...

Section 257 - The political year of the state of Mississippi shall commence...

Section 258 - The credit of the state shall not be pledged or...

Section 259 - No county seat shall be removed unless such removal be...

Section 260 - No new county shall be formed unless a majority of...

Section 261 - The expenses of criminal prosecutions shall be borne by the...

Section 262 - The board of supervisors shall have power to provide homes...

Section 264 - The Legislature shall, by law, provide for the qualifications of...

Section 265 - No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being...

Section 266 - No person holding or exercising the rights or powers of...

Section 267 - No person elected or appointed to any office or employment...

Section 268 - All officers elected or appointed to any office in this...

Section 271 - The Legislature may provide by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of...

Section 272-a - (2) Legislation shall not be enacted increasing benefits under the...

Section 273 - (13) The Legislature may enact laws to carry out the...

Section 274 - The laws of this state now in force, not repugnant...

Section 275 - (c) The provisions of Sections 223 to 226, inclusive, of...

Section 276 - All laws of the state which are repugnant to the...

Section 277 - All laws of this state which are repugnant to the...

Section 278 - The governor shall, as soon as practicable, appoint three suitable...

Section 279 - All writs, actions, causes of action, proceedings, prosecutions, and rights...

Section 280 - For the trial and determination of all suits, civil and...

Section 281 - All fines, penalties, forfeitures, and escheats, accruing to the state...

Section 282 - All recognizances, bonds, obligations, and all other instruments entered into...

Section 283 - All crimes and misdemeanors and penal actions shall be tried,...

Section 284 - All officers-state, district, county, and municipal-now in office in this...

Section 285 - Total, 134.