CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF WYOMING.: Article 1. Declaration of rights. 2. Distribution of powers. 3. Legislative department. 4. Executive department. 5. Judicial department. 6. Suffrage. 7. Education. 8. Irrigation and water rights. 9. Mines and mining. 10. Corporations. 11. Boundaries. 12. County organization. 13. Municipal corporations. 14. Salaries. 15. Taxation and revenue. 16. Public indebtedness. 17. State militia. 18. Public lands and donations. 19. Miscellaneous. 20. Amendment. 21. Schedule. Preamble. Section 9. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate in criminal cases. 10. In criminal prosecutions accused shall have the right to defend in person and by counsel. 11. No person compelled to testify against himself. — No person in jeopardy twice for the same offense. 12. Witnesses not to be unreason ably detained. 13. Persons proceeded against crimi nally by indictment. 14. All persons shall be bailable. Excessive bail and cruel pun ishments prohibited. 15. The Penal Code shall be framed on the humane principles of reformation and prevention. 16. In regard to prisons and im prisonment. 17. Habeas corpus. 18. Freedom of religious thought and worship. 19. State money not to be given to a sectarian or religious so ciety. 20. Freedom of speech. 21. The people may assemble to gether peaceably to consult for the common good. 22. The rights of labor to have just protection. 23. Education encouraged. 24. The right of citizens to bear arms. 25. Military subordinate to civil powers.-Quartering of troops. 26. Treason against the State de fined. 27. Elections to be open, free and equal. 28. No tax imposed without consent of the people. — All taxation shall be equally uniform. ARTICLE I. Declaration of Rights. Section 1. All power is inherent in the people. 2. In their inherent right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all members of the human race are equal. 3. Political equality. 4. Security against unreasonable searches and seizures. 5. No person shall be imprisoned for debt, except in cases of fraud. 6. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. 7. Liberty and property of free men. 8. All courts shall be open.-- Jus tice administered without sale or delay. Section 29. Resident aliens and citizens. 30. Perpetuities and monopolies contrary to genius of a free State. 31. Water controlled by the State. 32. Private property shall not be taken for private use. 33. Private property taken for pub lic use. 34. All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform opera tion. 35. No ex post facto law or other law impairing obligation of contracts. 36. The enumeration of rights in this Constitution not to impair other rights retained by the people. 37. The State is inseparable from the Federal Union. ARTICLE II. Distribution of Powers. 1. The powers of government of this State vested in the legislative, executive and judicial. Section 11. Majority of each house shall constitute a quorum. 12. The powers of each house. 13. Each house shall keep a jour nal. 14. The sessions of each house shall be open, except. 15. Adjournment for more than three days. 16. Members to be privileged from arrest, except when. 17. Sole power of impeachment vested in the House of Repre sentatives. 18. What State officers are liable for impeachment. 19. Removal of other officers. 20. No laws shall be passed except by bill. 21. The enacting cląuse of every law. 22. Bills for the appropriation of money, when introduced. 23. When the bill is to become a law. 24. No bill to contain more than one subject, except. 25. No bill shall become a law ex cept by vote of majority. 26. In regard to the title of a bill. 27. The Legislature not to pass local or special law in the fol lowing enumerated cases. 28. How bills are to be signed. 29. The numerous duties and com pensation of officers and em ployes. 30. Extra compensation to officers, etc. 31. Stationery, printing, etc. 32. In regard to the extension of the term of office or increase or decrease in salary. 33. All bills for raising revenue originate in House of Repre sentatives.. 34. Appropriation bills. 35. Payment of money from the treasury. 36. No appropriations except for institutions under absolute control of State. 37. Money not to be granted for municipal improvements. ARTICLE III. Legislatice Department. 1. The legislative power vested in Senate and House of Repre sentatives. 2. Election of Senators.-Term of office. Representatives and term of office.- Qualifications. 3. Each county shall constitute a senatorial and representative district. 4. Vacancies in either house, how filled. 5. Time of election of members of both houses. 6. Compensation of members for the first Legislature. 7. The Legislature shall meet, when. 8. Senators and Representatives may not hold two offices. 9. No increase of salary or mile age. 10. President of the Senate.-Speak er of the House Section 12. Powers and duties of the same. 13. Salary of Governor. 14. State Examiner.- His duties. 15. Seal of State. 15. The seal of the Territory to be the seal of State until otherwise provided for. Section 38. Investment of trust funds, etc. 39. The State or any county of the State to contract debts in the construction of railroads. 40. In regard to the liability of any person, association or corpora tion. 41. Every order, etc., to be pre sented to the Governor. 42. No person to promise his vote. 43. Bribery defined. 44. Any person may be compelled to testify in any lawful inves tigation. 45. Corrupt solicitation. 46. Members having personal or pri vate interests in a bill shall not vote thereon. Apportionment. 1. Election of Congressmen-at large. 2. Enumeration of the inhabitants of the State in 1895 and every tenth year thereafter. 3. Representative districts may be altered. 4. Apportionment. ARTICLE IV. Executive Department. 1. Executive power vested in Goy ernor. 2. Eligibility for office of Governor. 3. Election of Governor.-- In case of tie. 4. Governor commander-in-chief of military forces of the State. 5. Governor has power of reprieve and pardon. 6. Impeachment of Governor. 7. In case of vacancy, how filled. 8. Every bill to be presented to the Governor before it becomes a law. 9. The Governor may disapprove of any item or items. 10. In case of bribery. 11. Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer and Superintendent of Public Instruction. Term of office. ARTICLE V. Judicial Department. 1. Judicial power of the State is vested in the Senate. In the Supreme Court, District Courts, justices of the peace, etc. 2. Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. 3. Power to issue writs of man damus. 4. Supreme Court to consist of three justices.-Their election and term of office. 5. A majority to constitute a quorum. 6. In case a judge of the Supreme Court is interested in a cause. 7. Two terms to be held annually. 8. To be eligible to the office of chief justice. 9. Clerk of the Supreme Court. His appointment. 10. District Court shall have origi nal jurisdiction in criminal cases. 11. Judges of District Courts may hold courts for each other. 12. To be eligible to the office of judge of District Court. 13. There shall be a clerk of Dis trict Court in each organized county. 14. Appointment of District Courts. Commissioners. 15. The style of all process. 16. Judges of the Supreme Court shall have no duties except such as are judicial. 17. Their pay. 18. Writs of error and appeals. 19. The State shall be divided into three judicial districts. 20. Enumeration of the same. Section 21. The Legislature may increase judicial districts. Jurisdic tion. 22. Justices of the peace.- Number and election of. 23. Appeals. 24. Time of holding courts. 25. Judges of Supreme Court shall not practice law. 26. How terms of courts are to be fixed. 27. No judge of the Supreme or Dis trict Courts shall be eligible to other offices. 28. Appeals from decisions of com pulsory boards of arbitration allowed. Section 16. To hold office until successor is qualified. 17. Th time of holding elections. 18. Election or appointment of those not provided for in this con stitution. 19. Those who may not hold offices under the State and the United States. 20. Oath of office. 21. How the oath shall be admin istered. ARTICLE VII. ARTICLE VI. Suffrage. 1. Right to vote shall not be de nied on account of sex. 2. Requirements for voting. 3. Electors to be privileged from arrest on days of election, ex cept. 4. Not to perform military duty on day of election. 5. Must be a citizen of the United States. 6. Those who may not vote. 7. No elector shall lose his resi dence in this State by reason of absence on business of the United States. 8. Soldiers, seamen or marines of the United States not deemed a resident in consequence of being stationed in this State. 9. Must be able to read. 10. Nothing herein contained to de prive any person of the right to vote. 11. Elections shall be by ballot. 12. Voters must register according to law. 13. Purity of elections. 14. Election contests, how provided for. 15. Only qualified electors appointed to civil or military office. Education. 1. A complete and uniform system of public instruction. 2. Perpetual school fund. 3. Grants, gifts and devises for the same. 4. County school fund. 5. Custodians of such funds. 6. They shall be deemed trust funds in the care of the State 7. The income of the same to be applied to the support of free schools. 8. Income to be divided among the several counties. 9. Are required to attend school between six and eighteen years of age. 10. No distinction or discrimination to be made on account of sex. race or color. 11. Text books not to be prescribed for use in public schools. 12. No sectarian instruction. 13. Board of land commissioners. 14. The general supervision of the public schools intrusted to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 15. The establishment of the Uni versity of Wyoming is hereby confirmed. 16. Open to students of both sexes. irrespective of race or color. 17. Management of the University. 18. Charitable, reformatory and pe nal institutions. |