Pennsylvania constitution

Article I: declaration of rights

Section 1 - All men are born equally free and independent, and have...

Section 2 - All power is inherent in the people, and all free...

Section 3 - All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship...

Section 4 - No person who acknowledges the being of a God and...

Section 5 - Elections shall be free and equal; and no power, civil...

Section 6 - Trial by jury shall be as heretofore, and the right...

Section 7 - The printing press shall be free to every person who...

Section 8 - The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers...

Section 9 - In all criminal prosecutions the accused hath a right to...

Section 10 - Except as hereinafter provided no person shall, for any indictable...

Section 11 - All courts shall be open; and every man for an...

Section 12 - No power of suspending laws shall be exercised unless by...

Section 13 - Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed,...

Section 14 - All prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for...

Section 15 - No commission shall issue creating special temporary criminal tribunals to...

Section 16 - The person of a debtor, where there is not strong...

Section 17 - No ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the...

Section 18 - No person shall be attained of treason or felony by...

Section 19 - No attainder shall work corruption of blood, nor, except during...

Section 20 - The citizens have a right in a peaceable manner to...

Section 21 - The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense...

Section 22 - No standing army shall, in time of peace, be kept...

Section 23 - No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in...

Section 24 - The Legislature shall not grant any title of nobility of...

Section 25 - To guard against the transgressions of the high powers which...

Section 26 - Neither the Commonwealth nor any political subdivision thereof shall deny...

Section 27 - The people have a right to clean air, pure water,...

Section 28 - Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied...

Section 29 - Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied...

Article II: the legislature

Section 1 - The legislative power of this Commonwealth shall be vested in...

Section 2 - Members of the General Assembly shall be chosen at the...

Section 3 - Senators shall be elected for the term of four years...

Section 4 - The General Assembly shall be a continuing body during the...

Section 5 - Senators shall be at least twenty-five years of age and...

Section 6 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which...

Section 7 - No person hereafter convicted of embezzlement of public moneys, bribery,...

Section 8 - The members of the General Assembly shall receive such salary...

Section 9 - The Senate shall, at the beginning and close of each...

Section 10 - A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum, but...

Section 11 - Each House shall have power to determine the rules of...

Section 12 - Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings and...

Section 13 - The sessions of each House and of committees of the...

Section 14 - Neither House shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn...

Section 15 - The members of the General Assembly shall in all cases,...

Section 16 - The Commonwealth shall be divided into fifty senatorial and two...

Section 17 - (h) Any reapportionment plan filed by the commission, or ordered...

Article III: legislation

Section 1 - No law shall be passed except by bill, and no...

Section 2 - No bill shall be considered unless referred to a committee,...

Section 3 - No bill shall be passed containing more than one subject,...

Section 4 - Every bill shall be considered on three different days in...

Section 5 - No amendment to bills by one House shall be concurred...

Section 6 - No law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof...

Section 7 - No local or special bill shall be passed unless notice...

Section 8 - The presiding officer of each House shall, in the presence...

Section 9 - Every order, resolution or vote, to which the concurrence of...

Section 10 - All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House...

Section 11 - The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for...

Section 12 - A member who has a personal or private interest in...

Section 14 - The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance and support...

Section 15 - No money raised for the support of the public schools...

Section 16 - The citizens of this Commonwealth shall be armed, organized and...

Section 17 - The General Assembly shall prescribe by law the number, duties...

Section 18 - The General Assembly may enact laws requiring the payment by...

Section 19 - The General Assembly may make appropriations of money to institutions...

Section 20 - The Legislature shall have power to classify counties, cities, boroughs,...

Section 21 - Laws may be passed providing for a system of registering,...

Section 22 - The General Assembly shall maintain by law a system of...

Section 23 - The power to change the venue in civil and criminal...

Section 24 - No money shall be paid out of the treasury, except...

Section 25 - The General Assembly may provide, by law, during any session,...

Section 26 - No bill shall be passed giving any extra compensation to...

Section 27 - No law shall extend the term of any public officer,...

Section 28 - No law changing the permanent location of the Capital of...

Section 29 - No appropriation shall be made for charitable, educational or benevolent...

Section 30 - No appropriation shall be made to any charitable or educational...

Section 31 - The General Assembly shall not delegate to any special commission,...

Section 32 - Nor shall the General Assembly indirectly enact any special or...

Article IV: the executive

Section 1 - The Executive Department of this Commonwealth shall consist of a...

Section 2 - The supreme executive power shall be vested in the Governor,...

Section 3 - The Governor shall hold his office during four years from...

Section 4 - 1. An Attorney General shall be chosen by the qualified...

Section 5 - No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor,...

Section 6 - No member of Congress or person holding any office (except...

Section 7 - The Governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military forces of...

Section 8 - (c) In acting on executive nominations, the Senate shall sit...

Section 9 - (b) The Board of Pardons shall consist of the Lieutenant...

Section 10 - The Governor may require information in writing from the officers...

Section 11 - He shall, from time to time, give to the General...

Section 12 - He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the General Assembly, and...

Section 13 - In the case of the death, conviction on impeachment, failure...

Section 14 - In case of the death, conviction on impeachment, failure to...

Section 15 - Every bill which shall have passed both Houses shall be...

Section 16 - The Governor shall have power to disapprove of any item...

Section 17 - The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall preside upon...

Section 18 - The terms of the Auditor General and of the State...

Section 19 - The present Great Seal of Pennsylvania shall be the seal...

Section 20 - (d) Upon the expiration of a disaster emergency declaration under...

Article V: the judiciary

Section 1 - The Supreme Court shall exercise all the powers and, until...

Section 2 - Until otherwise provided by law, the Superior Court shall exercise...

Section 3 - The Commonwealth Court shall come into existence on January 1,...

Section 4 - Until otherwise provided by law, the several courts of common...

Section 5 - In those judicial districts having separate orphans' courts, the present...

Section 6 - Courts of common pleas in multi-county judicial districts are abolished...

Section 7 - (b) Upon completion of his term, his office is abolished...

Section 8 - Notwithstanding any provision in the article, a present justice, judge...

Section 9 - The office of associate judge not learned in the law...

Section 10 - A present judge who was originally elected to office and...

Section 11 - (b)Notwithstanding section ten (d) of the article the president judge...

Section 12 - (d) Except for officers completing their terms, after the first...

Section 13 - (d) Course of training, instruction and examination. The course of...

Section 14 - Effective immediately upon establishment of magisterial districts and until otherwise...

Section 15 - Until otherwise provided by law, the offices of prothonotary and...

Section 16 - (i) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (v) of this section,...

Section 17 - (i) Domestic Relations: Desertion or nonsupport or nonsupport of wives,...

Section 18 - Until otherwise provided by law, the present judges of the...

Section 19 - The present president judge of the court of common pleas...

Section 20 - Until otherwise provided by law, the trial division, the orphans'...

Section 21 - Upon the establishment of magisterial districts pursuant to this article...

Section 22 - All causes and proceedings pending in any abolished court or...

Section 23 - The selection of the first members of the Judicial Qualifications...

Section 24 - The selection of the first members of the Judicial Inquiry...

Section 25 - Until otherwise provided by law, the parties, by agreement filed,...

Section 26 - Unless and until changed by rule of the Supreme Court,...

Section 27 - Until changed in accordance with section eleven of this article,...

Section 28 - The officer of the Commonwealth who under law shall have...

Section 29 - Any person now specially admitted to practice may continue to...

Article VI: public officers

Section 1 - All officers, whose selection is not provided for in this...

Section 2 - No member of Congress from this State, nor any person...

Section 3 - Senators, Representatives and all judicial, State and county officers shall,...

Section 4 - The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of...

Section 5 - All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate. When sitting...

Section 6 - The Governor and all other civil officers shall be liable...

Section 7 - All civil officers shall hold their offices on the condition...

Article VII: elections

Section 1 - Every citizen 21 years of age, possessing the following qualifications,...

Section 2 - The general election shall be held biennially on the Tuesday...

Section 3 - All judged elected by the electors of the State at...

Section 4 - All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot or...

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

Section 6 - All laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens,...

Section 7 - Any person who shall give, or promise or offer to...

Section 8 - In trials of contested elections and in proceedings for the...

Section 9 - Townships and wards of cities or boroughs shall form or...

Section 10 - All elections by persons in a representative capacity shall be...

Section 11 - District election boards shall consist of a judge and two...

Section 12 - No person shall be qualified to serve as an election...

Section 13 - The trial and determination of contested elections of electors of...

Section 14 - (b) For purposes of this section, "municipality" means a city,...

Article VIII: taxation and finance

Section 1 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of...

Section 2 - (c) Citizens and residents of this Commonwealth, who served in...

Section 3 - Taxation laws may grant exemptions or rebates to residents, or...

Section 4 - The real property of public utilities is subject to real...

Section 5 - All laws exempting property from taxation, other than the property...

Section 6 - The power to tax corporations and corporate property shall not...

Section 7 - (d) If sufficient funds are not appropriated for the timely...

Section 8 - The credit of the Commonwealth shall not be pledged or...

Section 9 - The Commonwealth shall not assume the debt,or any part thereof,...

Section 10 - The financial affairs of any entity funded or financially aided...

Section 11 - (b) All proceeds from aviation fuel excise taxes, after providing...

Section 12 - (ii) Projected expenditures for capital projects specifically itemized by purpose,...

Section 13 - (b) The General Assembly shall adopt a capital budget for...

Section 14 - All surplus of operating funds at the end of the...

Section 15 - In addition to the purposes stated in Article VIII, section...

Section 16 - In addition to the purposed stated in Article VIII, section...

Section 17 - (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article III, section 29 subsequent...

Article IX: local government

Section 1 - The General Assembly shall provide by general law for local...

Section 2 - Municipalities shall have the right and power to frame and...

Section 3 - Municipalities shall have the right and power to adopt optional...

Section 4 - County officers shall consist of commissioners, controllers, or auditors, district...

Section 5 - A municipality by act of its governing body may, or...

Section 6 - The General Assembly shall provide for the establishment and dissolution...

Section 7 - The General Assembly may grant powers to area governments or...

Section 8 - Uniform Legislation. -- The General Assembly shall, within two years...

Section 9 - The General Assembly shall not authorize any municipality or incorporated...

Section 10 - Subject only to the restrictions imposed by this section, the...

Section 11 - Within the year following that in which the Federal decennial...

Section 12 - The debt of the City of Philadelphia may be increased...

Section 13 - (f) Upon adoption of this amendment all county officers shall...

Section 14 - As used in this article, the following words shall have...

Article X: private corporations

Section 1 - The charters and privileges granted prior to 1874 to private...

Section 2 - Private corporations which have accepted or accept the Constitution of...

Section 3 - All charters of private corporations and all present and future...

Section 4 - Municipal and other corporations invested with the privilege of taking...

Article XI: amendments

Section 1 - (b) If an emergency amendment is approved by a majority...