Nebraska constitution

Article I: bill of rights

Section 1 - All persons are by nature free and independent, and have...

Section 2 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in this...

Section 3 - No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property,...

Section 4 - All persons have a natural and indefeasible right to worship...

Section 5 - Every person may freely speak, write and publish on all...

Section 6 - The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate, but...

Section 7 - The right of the people to be secure in their...

Section 8 - The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not...

Section 9 - All persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for...

Section 10 - No person shall be held to answer for a criminal...

Section 11 - In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right...

Section 12 - No person shall be compelled, in any criminal case, to...

Section 13 - All courts shall be open, and every person, for any...

Section 14 - Treason against the state shall consist only in levying war...

Section 15 - All penalties shall be proportioned to the nature of the...

Section 16 - No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law...

Section 17 - The military shall be in strict subordination to the civil...

Section 18 - No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in...

Section 19 - Right of peaceable assembly and to petition government. The right...

Section 20 - No person shall be imprisoned for debt in any civil...

Section 21 - The property of no person shall be taken or damaged...

Section 22 - (2.) Before casting a ballot in any election, a qualified...

Section 23 - In all capital cases, appeal directly to the Supreme Court...

Section 24 - Repealed.

Section 25 - There shall be no discrimination between citizens of the United...

Section 26 - This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to impair...

Section 27 - The English language is hereby declared to be the official...

Section 28 - (3) Nothing in this section shall constitute a basis for...

Section 29 - Only marriage between a man and a woman shall be...

Section 30 - (8) This section shall be self executing. If any part...

Article II: distribution of powers

Section 1 - (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section,...

Article III: legislative

Section 1 - The legislative authority of the state shall be vested in...

Section 2 - The first power reserved by the people is the initiative...

Section 3 - When the referendum is invoked as to any act or...

Section 4 - The whole number of votes cast for Governor at the...

Section 5 - The Legislature shall by law determine the number of members...

Section 6 - The Legislature shall consist of not more than fifty members...

Section 7 - At the general election to be held in November 1964,...

Section 8 - No person shall be eligible to the office of member...

Section 9 - No person holding office under the authority of the United...

Section 10 - Beginning with the year 1975, regular sessions of the Legislature...

Section 11 - The Legislature shall keep a journal of its proceedings and...

Section 12 - (3) For the purpose of this section, service in office...

Section 13 - The style of all bills shall be, Be it enacted...

Section 14 - Every bill and resolution shall be read by title when...

Section 15 - Members of the Legislature in all cases except treason, felony...

Section 16 - No member of the Legislature or any state officer shall...

Section 17 - The Legislature shall have the sole power of impeachment, but...

Section 18 - For granting divorces. Changing the names of persons or places....

Section 19 - The surviving spouse of any retired public officer, agent, or...

Section 20 - The salt springs, coal, oil, minerals, or other natural resources...

Section 21 - Lands under control of the State shall never be donated...

Section 22 - Each Legislature shall make appropriations for the expenses of the...

Section 24 - (5) This section shall not apply to any law which...

Section 25 - No allowance shall be made for the incidental expenses of...

Section 26 - No member of the Legislature shall be liable in any...

Section 27 - No act shall take effect until three calendar months after...

Section 29 - (2). In the exercise of the powers hereinbefore conferred, the...

Section 30 - The Legislature shall pass all laws necessary to carry into...

Article IV: executive

Section 1 - The heads of all executive departments established by law, other...

Section 2 - No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor,...

Section 3 - The treasurer shall be ineligible to the office of treasurer,...

Section 4 - The returns of every election for the officers of the...

Section 5 - All civil officers of this state shall be liable to...

Section 6 - The supreme executive power shall be vested in the Governor,...

Section 7 - The Governor may, at the commencement of each session, and...

Section 8 - The Governor may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the Legislature by...

Section 10 - The Governor shall appoint with the approval of a majority...

Section 11 - If any elected state office created by this Constitution, except...

Section 12 - If any nonelective state office, except offices provided for in...

Section 13 - The Legislature shall provide by law for the establishment of...

Section 14 - The Governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military and naval...

Section 15 - Every bill passed by the Legislature, before it becomes a...

Section 16 - If the Governor or the person in line of succession...

Section 19 - The general management, control and government of all state charitable,...

Section 20 - There shall be a Public Service Commission, consisting of not...

Section 22 - The Legislature shall provide by statute for the keeping of...

Section 23 - All expending agencies of the state as the Legislature may...

Section 24 - There shall be a seal of the state, which shall...

Section 25 - The officers provided for in this article shall receive such...

Section 26 - All officers of government shall give bond as may be...

Section 27 - No executive state office other than herein provided shall be...

Section 28 - A Tax Commissioner shall be appointed by the Governor with...

Article V: judicial

Section 1 - The judicial power of the state shall be vested in...

Section 2 - The Supreme Court shall consist of seven judges, one of...

Section 3 - At least two terms of the supreme court shall be...

Section 4 - The Chief Justice and the Judges of the Supreme Court...

Section 5 - The Legislature shall divide the state into six contiguous and...

Section 6 - The Chief Justice shall preside at all terms and sittings...

Section 7 - No person shall be eligible to the office of Chief...

Section 8 - The Supreme Court shall appoint such staff as may be...

Section 9 - The district courts shall have both chancery and common law...

Section 10 - The state shall be divided into district court judicial districts....

Section 11 - The Legislature may change the number of judges of the...

Section 12 - The judges of the district court may hold court for...

Section 13 - The chief justice, the judges of the supreme court and...

Section 14 - No judge of the Supreme or district courts shall act...

Section 19 - The organization, jurisdiction, powers, proceedings, and practice of all courts...

Section 20 - All officers provided for in this Article shall hold their...

Section 21 - (5) Members of the nominating commission shall vote for the...

Section 22 - The state may sue and be sued, and the Legislature...

Section 23 - The several judges of the courts of record shall have...

Section 24 - All process shall run in the name of "The State...

Section 25 - For the effectual administration of justice and the prompt disposition...

Section 26 - Proviso as to effect of amendment. If the foregoing amendment...

Section 27 - Notwithstanding the provisions of section 9 of this Article, the...

Section 28 - The Legislature shall provide for a Commission on Judicial Qualifications...

Section 29 - The commission shall act by a vote of the majority...

Section 30 - (6) No Justice or Judge of the Supreme Court or...

Section 31 - These amendments are alternative to and cumulative with the methods...

Article VI: suffrage

Section 1 - Every citizen of the United States who has attained the...

Section 2 - No person shall be qualified to vote who is non...

Section 3 - Every elector in the military or naval service of the...

Section 4 - Repealed.

Section 5 - Electors shall in all cases, except treason, felony, or breach...

Section 6 - All votes shall be by ballot or by other means...

Article VII: education

Section 1 - The Legislature shall provide for the free instruction in the...

Section 2 - The State Department of Education shall be comprised of a...

Section 3 - The State Board of Education shall be composed of eight...

Section 4 - The State Board of Education shall appoint and fix the...

Section 5 - (3) Law enforcement agencies may use conveyances forfeited pursuant to...

Section 6 - No lands now owned or hereafter acquired by the state...

Section 7 - Fifth. All other property of any kind now belonging to...

Section 8 - All funds belonging to the state for common school purposes,...

Section 9 - (e) If the annual income from twenty million dollars of...

Section 10 - The Legislature shall redistrict the state after each federal decennial...

Section 11 - A religious test or qualification shall not be required of...

Section 12 - The Legislature may provide by law for the establishment of...

Section 13 - The general government of the state colleges as now existing,...

Section 14 - The terms of the members of the commission shall be...

Section 15 - Omitted.

Section 16 - Repealed.

Section 17 - Repealed.

Article VIII: revenue

Section 1 - The necessary revenue of the state and its governmental subdivisions...

Section 2 - Notwithstanding Article I, section 16, Article III, section 18, or...

Section 3 - The right of redemption from all sales of real estate,...

Section 4 - Except as to tax and assessment charges against real property...

Section 5 - County authorities shall never assess taxes the aggregate of which...

Section 6 - The Legislature may vest the corporate authorities of cities, towns...

Section 7 - Private property shall not be liable to be taken or...

Section 8 - The Legislature at its first session shall provide by law...

Section 9 - The Legislature shall provide by law that all claims upon...

Section 10 - Notwithstanding the other provisions of Article VIII, the Legislature is...

Section 11 - So much of such five (5) per cent as is...

Section 12 - When such indebtedness and the interest thereon have been paid...

Section 13 - Notwithstanding Article I, section 16, Article III, section 18, or...

Section 1a - The state shall be prohibited from levying a property tax...

Section 1b - When an income tax is adopted by the Legislature, the...

Section 2a - The Legislature may establish bonded and licensed warehouses or storage...

Article IX: counties

Section 1 - No new county shall be formed or established by the...

Section 2 - No county shall be divided nor any part of the...

Section 3 - When a county shall be added to another, all prior...

Section 4 - The Legislature shall provide by law for the election of...

Section 5 - The Legislature shall provide by general law for township organization,...

Article X: public service corporations

Section 1 - Every public utility corporation or common carrier organized or doing...

Section 2 - The rolling stock and all other movable property belonging to...

Section 3 - No public utility corporation or common carrier shall consolidate its...

Section 4 - Railways heretofore constructed, or that may hereafter be constructed, in...

Section 5 - The capital stock of public utility corporations or common carriers...

Section 6 - The exercise of the power and the right of eminent...

Section 7 - The Legislature shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent...

Section 8 - No railroad corporation organized under the laws of any other...

Article XI: municipal corporations

Section 1 - No city, county, town, precinct, municipality, or other subdivision of...

Section 2 - Any city having a population of more than five thousand...

Section 3 - But if said charter be rejected, then within six months...

Section 4 - No charter or charter amendment adopted under the provisions of...

Section 5 - The charter of any city having a population of more...

Article XII: miscellaneous corporations

Section 1 - The Legislature shall provide by general law for the organization,...

Section 2 - Repealed.

Section 3 - Repealed.

Section 4 - Repealed.

Section 5 - Repealed.

Section 6 - Repealed.

Section 7 - Repealed.

Section 8 - The Nebraska Legislature may enact, by general law, further restrictions...

Article XIII: state, county, and municipal indebtedness

Section 1 - The state may, to meet casual deficits, or failures in...

Section 2 - Notwithstanding any other provision in the Constitution, the Legislature may...

Section 3 - The credit of the state shall never be given or...

Article XIV: militia

Section 1 - The Legislature may provide for the personnel, organization, and discipline...

Article XV: miscellaneous provisions

Section 1 - Executive and judicial officers and members of the legislature, before...

Section 2 - No person who is in default as collector and custodian...

Section 3 - Repealed.

Section 4 - The necessity of water for domestic use and for irrigation...

Section 5 - The use of the water of every natural stream within...

Section 6 - The right to divert unappropriated waters of every natural stream...

Section 7 - The use of the waters of the state for power...

Section 8 - Laws may be enacted regulating the hours and conditions of...

Section 9 - Laws may be enacted providing for the investigation, submission, and...

Section 10 - Repealed.

Section 11 - Repealed.

Section 12 - The seat of government of the state shall not be...

Section 13 - No person shall be denied employment because of membership in...

Section 14 - The term "labor organization" means any organization of any kind,...

Section 15 - This article is self-executing and shall supersede all provisions in...

Section 16 - Repealed.

Section 17 - (2) The Legislature may authorize the investment of retirement or...

Section 18 - (2) The Legislature may provide for the merger or consolidation...

Section 19 - Notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, the governing bodies...

Sections 20-24 - Omitted.

Section 25 - The citizens of Nebraska have the right to hunt, to...

Article XVI: amendments

Section 1 - The Legislature may propose amendments to this Constitution. If the...

Section 2 - When three-fifths of the members elected to the Legislature deem...

Article XVII: schedule

Section 1 - Whenever they shall appear in this Constitution, the terms members...

Section 2 - Repealed.

Section 3 - Repealed.

Section 4 - The general election of this state shall be held on...

Section 5 - Unless otherwise provided by this Constitution or by law the...

Section 7 - Repealed.

Section 8 - Repealed.

Section 9 - Repealed.

Section 11 - Repealed.

Article XVIII: term limits on congress

Section 1 - Therefore, we the people of the State of Nebraska, have...

Section 2 - (3) The information "DISREGARDED VOTERS INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS" shall...

Section 3 - ......................... Signature of Candidate

Section 4 - (6) The information "DISREGARDED VOTERS INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS" shall...

Section 5 - (7) The Nebraska Supreme Court shall hear the appeal provided...

Section 6 - At such time as the congressional term limits amendment set...

Section 7 - Any legal challenge to this initiative shall be filed as...

Section 8 - If any portion, clause, or phrase of this initiative is,...