Washington state constitution

Section 1 - All political power is inherent in the people, and governments...

Section 2 - The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law...

Section 4 - The right of petition and of the people peaceably to...

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

Section 6 - The mode of administering an oath, or affirmation, shall be...

Section 7 - No person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, or...

Section 8 - No law granting irrevocably any privilege, franchise or immunity, shall...

Section 9 - No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to...

Section 10 - Justice in all cases shall be administered openly, and without...

Section 11 - Absolute freedom of conscience in all matters of religious sentiment,...

Section 12 - No law shall be passed granting to any citizen, class...

Section 13 - The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not...

Section 14 - Excessive bail shall not be required, excessive fines imposed, nor...

Section 15 - No conviction shall work corruption of blood, nor forfeiture of...

Section 16 - Private property shall not be taken for private use, except...

Section 17 - There shall be no imprisonment for debt, except in cases...

Section 18 - The military shall be in strict subordination to the civil...

Section 19 - All Elections shall be free and equal, and no power,...

Section 20 - All persons charged with crime shall be bailable by sufficient...

Section 21 - The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate, but...

Section 22 - In criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to...

Section 23 - No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law...

Section 24 - The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in...

Section 25 - Offenses heretofore required to be prosecuted by indictment may be...

Section 26 - No grand jury shall be drawn or summoned in any...

Section 27 - Treason against the state shall consist only in levying war...

Section 28 - No hereditary emoluments, privileges, or powers, shall be granted or...

Section 29 - The provisions of this Constitution are mandatory, unless by express...

Section 30 - The enumeration in this Constitution of certain rights shall not...

Section 33 - Every elective public officer of the state of Washington expect...

Section 34 - The legislature shall pass the necessary laws to carry out...

Section 35 - Upon notifying the prosecuting attorney, a victim of a crime...

Section 1 - (e) The legislature shall provide methods of publicity of all...

Section 2 - The house of representatives shall be composed of not less...

Section 4 - Members of the house of representatives shall be elected in...

Section 5 - The next election of the members of the house of...

Section 6 - After the first election the senators shall be elected by...

Section 7 - No person shall be eligible to the legislature who shall...

Section 8 - Each house shall be the judge of the election, returns...

Section 9 - Each house may determine the rules of its own proceedings,...

Section 10 - Each house shall elect its own officers; and when the...

Section 11 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings and...

Section 12 - (3) Committees of the Legislature. Standing and special committees of...

Section 13 - No member of the legislature, during the term for which...

Section 14 - No person, being a member of congress, or holding any...

Section 15 - Such vacancies as may occur in either house of the...

Section 16 - Members of the legislature shall be privileged from arrest in...

Section 17 - No member of the legislature shall be liable in any...

Section 18 - The style of the laws of the state shall be:...

Section 19 - No bill shall embrace more than one subject, and that...

Section 20 - Any bill may originate in either house of the legislature,...

Section 21 - The yeas and nays of the members of either house...

Section 22 - No bill shall become a law unless on its final...

Section 23 - Each member of the legislature shall receive for his services...

Section 24 - The legislature shall never grant any divorce. Lotteries shall be...

Section 25 - The legislature shall never grant any extra compensation to any...

Section 26 - The legislature shall direct by law, in what manner, and...

Section 27 - In all elections by the legislature the members shall vote...

Section 28 - Corporations for municipal purposes shall not be created by special...

Section 29 - The labor of inmates of this state shall not be...

Section 30 - The offense of corrupt solicitation of members of the legislature,...

Section 32 - No bill shall become a law until the same shall...

Section 34 - There shall be established in the office of the secretary...

Section 35 - The legislature shall pass necessary laws for the protection of...

Section 36 - No bill shall be considered in either house unless the...

Section 37 - No act shall ever be revised or amended by mere...

Section 38 - No amendment to any bill shall be allowed which shall...

Section 39 - It shall not be lawful for any person holding public...

Section 40 - Provided, That this section shall not be construed to include...

Section 41 - No act, law, or bill subject to referendum shall take...

Section 42 - Article 3, Section 24, State Records.

Section 43 - (11) Legislative and congressional districts may not be changed or...

Section 3 - The lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, attorney general,...

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

Section 2 - The supreme court shall consist of five judges, a majority...

Section 2(a) - When necessary for the prompt and orderly administration of justice...

Section 3 - The judges of the supreme court shall be elected by...

Section 3(a) - A judge of the supreme court or the superior court...

Section 4 - The supreme court shall have original jurisdiction in habeas corpus,...

Section 5 - There shall be in each of the organized counties of...

Section 6 - Superior courts and district courts have concurrent jurisdiction in cases...

Section 7 - The judge of any superior court may hold a superior...

Section 8 - Any judicial officer who shall absent himself from the state...

Section 9 - Any judge of any court of record, the attorney general,...

Section 10 - The legislature shall determine the number of justices of the...

Section 11 - The supreme court and the superior courts shall be courts...

Section 12 - The legislature shall prescribe by law the jurisdiction and powers...

Section 13 - No judicial officer, except court commissioners and unsalaried justices of...

Section 14 - Each of the judges of the supreme court shall receive...

Section 15 - The judges of the supreme court and the judges of...

Section 16 - Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of...

Section 17 - No person shall be eligible to the office of judge...

Section 18 - The judges of the supreme court shall appoint a reporter...

Section 19 - No judge of a court of record shall practice law...

Section 20 - Every cause submitted to a judge of a superior court...

Section 21 - The legislature shall provide for the speedy publication of opinions...

Section 22 - The judges of the supreme court shall appoint a clerk...

Section 23 - There may be appointed in each county, by the judge...

Section 24 - The judges of the superior courts, shall from time to...

Section 25 - Superior judges, shall on or before the first day of...

Section 26 - The county clerk shall be by virtue of his office,...

Section 27 - The style of all process shall be, "The State of...

Section 28 - Every judge of the supreme court, and every judge of...

Section 29 - Notwithstanding any provision of this Constitution to the contrary, if,...

Section 30 - (6) Conflicts. The provisions of this section shall supersede any...

Section 31 - (10) The commission shall, to the extent that compliance does...

Section 1 - The house of representatives shall have the sole power of...

Section 2 - The governor and other state and judicial officers, except judges...

Section 3 - All officers not liable to impeachment shall be subject to...

Section 1 - All persons of the age of eighteen years or over...

Section 3 - All persons convicted of infamous crime unless restored to their...

Section 4 - For the purpose of voting and eligibility to office no...

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

Section 6 - All elections shall be by ballot. The legislature shall provide...

Section 7 - The legislature shall enact a registration law, and shall require...

Section 8 - The first election of county and district officers not otherwise...

Section 1 - The power of taxation shall never be suspended, surrendered or...

Section 2 - Except as hereinafter provided and notwithstanding any other provision of...

Section 3 - The United States and its agencies and instrumentalities, and their...

Section 5 - No tax shall be levied except in pursuance of law;...

Section 6 - All taxes levied and collected for state purposes shall be...

Section 7 - An accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of the...

Section 8 - Whenever the expenses of any fiscal year shall exceed the...

Section 9 - The legislature may vest the corporate authorities of cities, towns...

Section 10 - Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7, section 1 (Amendment 14)...

Section 11 - Nothing in this Article VII as amended shall prevent the...

Section 12 - (a) A budget stabilization account shall be established and maintained...

Section 1 - (a) The state may contract debt, the principal of which...

Section 2 - In addition to the above limited power to contract debts...

Section 3 - Except the debt specified in sections one and two of...

Section 4 - No moneys shall ever be paid out of the treasury...

Section 5 - The credit of the state shall not, in any manner...

Section 6 - No county, city, town, school district, or other municipal corporation...

Section 7 - No county, city, town or other municipal corporation shall hereafter...

Section 8 - The use of public funds by port districts in such...

Section 9 - The legislature is empowered notwithstanding any other provision in this...

Section 10 - Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of this Article, any...

Section 11 - The use of agricultural commodity assessments by agricultural commodity commissions...

Section 1 - It is the paramount duty of the state to make...

Section 2 - The legislature shall provide for a general and uniform system...

Section 3 - The principal of the common school fund as the same...

Section 4 - All schools maintained or supported wholly or in part by...

Section 5 - All losses to the permanent common school or any other...

Section 1 - All able-bodied male citizens of this state between the ages...

Section 2 - The legislature shall provide by law for organizing and disciplining...

Section 3 - The legislature shall provide by law for the maintenance of...

Section 4 - The legislature shall provide by law, for the protection and...

Section 5 - The militia shall, in all cases, except treason, felony and...

Section 6 - No person or persons, having conscientious scruples against bearing arms,...

Section 1 - The several counties of the Territory of Washington existing at...

Section 2 - No county seat shall be removed unless three-fifths of the...

Section 3 - No new counties shall be established which shall reduce any...

Section 4 - The legislature shall establish a system of county government, which...

Section 5 - The legislature, by general and uniform laws, shall provide for...

Section 6 - The board of county commissioners in each county shall fill...

Section 8 - The salary of any county, city, town, or municipal officers...

Section 9 - No county, nor the inhabitants thereof, nor the property therein,...

Section 10 - Corporations for municipal purposes shall not be created by special...

Section 11 - Any county, city, town or township may make and enforce...

Section 12 - The legislature shall have no power to impose taxes upon...

Section 13 - Private property shall not be taken or sold for the...

Section 14 - The making of profit out of county, city, town, or...

Section 15 - All moneys, assessments and taxes belonging to or collected for...

Section 16 - Any county may frame a "Home Rule" charter subject to...

Section 1 - Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not...

Section 2 - All existing charters, franchises, special or exclusive privileges, under which...

Section 3 - The legislature shall not extend any franchise or charter, nor...

Section 4 - Each stockholder in all incorporated companies, except corporations organized for...

Section 5 - The term corporations, as used in this article, shall be...

Section 6 - Corporations shall not issue stock, except to bona fide subscribers...

Section 7 - No corporation organized outside the limits of this state shall...

Section 8 - No corporation shall lease or alienate any franchise, so as...

Section 9 - The state shall not in any manner loan its credit,...

Section 10 - The exercise of the right of eminent domain shall never...

Section 11 - No corporation, association, or individual shall issue or put in...

Section 12 - Any president, director, manager, cashier, or other officer of any...

Section 13 - All railroad, canal and other transportation companies are declared to...

Section 15 - No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be...

Section 16 - No railroad corporation shall consolidate its stock, property or franchises...

Section 17 - The rolling stock and other movable property belonging to any...

Section 18 - The legislature may pass laws establishing reasonable rates of charges...

Section 19 - Any association or corporation, or the lessees or managers thereof,...

Section 20 - No railroad or other transportation company shall grant free passes,...

Section 21 - Railroad companies now or hereafter organized or doing business in...

Section 22 - Monopolies and trusts shall never be allowed in this state,...

Section 1 - Educational, reformatory, and penal institutions; those for the benefit of...

Section 1 - The legislature shall have no power to change, or to...

Section 2 - When the seat of government shall have been located as...

Section 3 - The legislature shall make no appropriations or expenditures for capitol...

Section 1 - The legislature shall provide for the appointment of a commission...

Section 2 - The legislature shall provide general laws for the leasing of...

Section 3 - Municipal corporations shall have the right to extend their streets...

Section 1 - All the public lands granted to the state are held...

Section 2 - None of the lands granted to the state for educational...

Section 3 - No more than one-fourth of the land granted to the...

Section 4 - No more than one hundred and sixty (160) acres of...

Section 5 - The permanent common school fund of this state may be...

Section 6 - Notwithstanding the provisions of Article VIII, sections 5 and 7...

Section 1 - The state of Washington asserts its ownership to the beds...

Section 2 - The state of Washington disclaims all title in and claim...

Section 1 - The seal of the State of Washington shall be, a...

Section 1 - The legislature shall protect by law from forced sale a...

Section 1 - There shall be established by law a state board of...

Section 2 - The legislature shall enact laws to regulate the practice of...

Section 1 - The use of the waters of this state for irrigation,...

Section 1 - Until otherwise provided by law, the state shall be divided...

Section 2 - the county of Adams shall have one representative; the county...

Section 1 - Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed...

Section 2 - Whenever two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of...

Section 3 - Any Constitution adopted by such convention shall have no validity...

Section 1 - The boundaries of the state of Washington shall be as...

Section 1 - The consent of the State of Washington is hereby given...

Preamble - The following ordinance shall be irrevocable without the consent of...

First - That perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured and...

Second - That the people inhabiting this state do agree and declare...

Third - The debts and liabilities of the Territory of Washington and...

Fourth - Provision shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of...

Section 1 - No existing rights, actions, suits, proceedings, contracts or claims shall...

Section 2 - All laws now in force in the Territory of Washington,...

Section 3 - All debts, fines, penalties and forfeitures, which have accrued, or...

Section 4 - All recognizances heretofore taken, or which may be taken before...

Section 5 - All criminal prosecutions and penal actions which may have arisen,...

Section 6 - All officers now holding their office under the authority of...

Section 7 - All officers provided for in this Constitution including a county...

Section 8 - Whenever the judge of the superior court of any county,...

Section 9 - Until otherwise provided by law, the seal now in use...

Section 10 - When the state is admitted into the Union, and the...

Section 11 - The legislature, at its first session, shall provide for the...

Section 12 - In case of a contest of election between candidates, at...

Section 14 - All district, county and precinct officers, who may be in...

Section 15 - The election held at the time of the adoption of...

Section 16 - The provisions of this Constitution shall be in force from...

Section 17 - "It shall not be lawful for any individual, company or...

Section 18 - 4.For the Permanent Location of the Seat of Government (Name...

Section 19 - The legislature is hereby authorized to appropriate from the state...

Section 1 - Salaries for members of the legislature, elected officials of the...

Section 1 - Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5, and 7 of Article...

Section 1 - The provisions of section 25 of Article II (Amendment 35),...

Section 1 - Equality of rights and responsibility under the law shall not...

Section 2 - The legislature shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate...

Section 1 - After the initial adoption of a law by the legislature...