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1. Declaration of rights. 2. Distribution of powers.

3. Executive department.

13. No person arrested and confined in jail shall be treated with unnecessary rigor.

14. No person shall be put to answer any criminal charge but by presentment, indictment or impeachment.

15. All prisoners shall be bailable, except for capital offenses.

16. Excessive bails or fines shall not be required.

17. All courts shall be open and justice shall be administered without delay.

18. No person shall be imprisoned for debt.

19. The printing presses shall be free to every person to examine the proceedings of the Legislature.

20. No law impairing the obligation of contracts shall be made. 21. No man's services or property shall be taken without just compensation being made therefor.

22. Perpetuities and monopolies shall not be allowed.

23. The people have a right to assemble in a peaceable manner to consult for the common good.

24. There shall be a militia.-No standing army.

25. No person shall be subject to military law except those employed in the army or militia. 26. The citizens have the right to keep and bear arms for their common defense.

27. No soldier shall, in the time of peace, be quartered in any

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house without the consent of the owner.

28. No person shall be compelled to bear arms, provided he will pay an equivalent.

29. An equal participation in the free navigation of the Mississippi is one of the inherent rights of the citizens of the State.

30. No hereditary emoluments, privileges or honors shall ever be granted or conferred in this State.

31. The boundary of the State shall be as follows.

32. The erection of safe and comfortable prisons shall be provided for.

33. Slavery and involuntary servitude are forever prohibited in this State.

34. The General Assembly shall make no law recognizing the right of property in man.

ARTICLE II.

Distribution of Powers.

1. The powers of the government shall be the legislative, executive and judicial.

2. No person or persons belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any of the powers properly belonging to any of the others.

Legislative Department.

3. The Legislative authority of this State shall be vested in a General Assembly.

4. An enumeration of the qualified voters and an apportionment of the Representatives in the General Assembly.

5. The number of representatives shall be.

6. The number of Senators shall be. 7. The first election of Senators |

each house shall constitute a quorum.

12. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly conduct and expel a member by a two-thirds vote. 13. When Senators and Representatives shall be privileged from arrest.

14. Each house may punish by imprisonment any person not a member, who shall be guilty of disrespect to the house. 15. The Governor shall have power to fill vacancies.

16. In regard to the adjournment of the two houses.

17. Bills may orignate in either house.---No bill shall embrace more than one subject.

18. Every bill shall be read once on three different days.

19. No bill shall be passed after it has been rejected (during the same session).

20. The style of the laws of this State shall be.

21. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings.

22. The doors of each house shall be kept open.

23. In regard to the salary of the members of the General Assembly.

24. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, except by appropriation.

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25. In regard to the eligibility of members of the General Assembly.

26. No person holding any other office under the government shall have a seat in the General Assembly.

27. Any member of either house of the General Assembly shall have the liberty to protest against any act.

28. All property, real, personal or mixed, shall be taxed.

29. The General Assembly shall have the power to authorize the several counties and incorporated towns in this State to impose taxes.

30. No article manufactured in this State shall be taxed.

31. The credit of this State shall not be loaned or given.

32. No convention or General Assembly of this State shall act upon any amendment of the Constitution of the United States proposed by Congress to the several States.

33. No bonds of this State shall be issued to any railroad com

pany.

1. The

ARTICLE III.

Executive Department.

supreme executive power of this State shall be vested in the Governor.

2. The Governor shall be chosen by the electors of the members of the General Assembly.

3. The Governor shall be at least thirty years of age.

4. His term of office.

5. He shall be Commander-inChief of the army and navy of this State.

6. He shall have the power to grant reprieves and pardons.

7. His compensation.

8. He may require information in writing from the members of the executive department.

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5. Justices of the peace and other officers not hereinbefore mentioned shall be liable to indictment.

ARTICLE VI.

Judicial Department.

1. The judicial power of this State shall be vested in the Supreme Court.

2. The Supreme Court shall consist of five judges.

3. The judges

of the Supreme

Court shall be elected by the qualified voters of the State. 4. How the judges of the Circuit and Chancery Courts, etc., shall be elected.

5. An Attorney-General and reporter for the State shall be appointed by the judges of the Supreme Court.

6. The judges and attorneys for the State may be removed from office by a concurrent vote of both houses.

7. Compensation of the judges of the Supreme and Inferior Courts.

8. The jurisdiction of the Circuit, Chancery and other inferior courts.

9. How judges shall charge juries. 10. Power of judges and justices of inferior courts.

11. No judge of the Supreme or inferior courts shall preside at the trial of any cause in which he may be interested.

12. All writs and other process shall run in the name of the State of Tennessee.

13. Judges of the Supreme Court shall appoint their clerks.

14. In regard to the fines to be levied.

15. The different counties in this State shall be laid off as the General Assembly shall direct.