CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF IDAHO. ARTICLES. Article 1. Declaration of rights. 2. Legislative department. 3. Executive department. 4. Judicial department. 5. Elective franchise. 6. Municipal corporations. 7. Corporations other than munici. pal. 8. Education. 9. School and public lands. 10. County and township organiza tions. 11. Revenue and taxation. 12. Public debt and public works. 13. Militia. 14. Impeachment and removal from office. 15. Future amendments. 16. Compact with the United States. 17. Miscellaneous. 18. Congressional and legislative ap portionment. Schedule. Section 4. Freedom of religious thought and worship. 5. Writ of habeas corpus. 6. Bail shall be accepted, except for capital offenses. 7. Right of trial by jury. 8. Offenses shall be prosecuted criminally by indictment, or information. 9. Freedom of speech. 10. The people have the right to assemble together in a peaceable manner for the common good. 11. The people have the right to bear arms. 12. The military shall be subordi. nate to the civil power. 13. Right to speedy and public trial. -No person shall twice be put in jeopardy for the same of fense. 14. In regard to the use of lands for the storage of water, etc.Private property taken for public use must have a just compensation. 15. Imprisonment for debt. 16. No law impairing the obligation of contracts snall ever be passed. 17. Unreasonable searches and seiz. ures not tolerated. 18. Right and justice shall be ad ministered without sale or prejudice. 19. Right of suffrage not to be in terfered with. 20. No property qualification for right to vote. ARTICLE I. Declaration of Rights. Section 1. All men are by nature free and have certain inalienable rights. 2. All political power is inherent in the people. 3. The State is inseparable from the Union. ARTICLE IV Legislatice Department. 1. The legislative power of the State is vested in the Senate and House of Representatives. 2. The Senate to consist of eigh teen members; the House of Representatives of thirty-six members. 3. Elected for two years. 4. Apportionment. 5. No county shall be divided in creating districts. 6. Senator and Representative must be an elector of this State. 7. Legislators privileged from ar rest, except when. 8. Sessions of Legislature to be held biennially. 9. Each house to choose its own members. In regard to ad journment. 10. A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum. 11. To expel a member, a two-thirds vote required. 12. The business of each house to be transacted openly. 13. Each house to keep a journal. 14. Bills may originate in either house. 15. No law shall be passed except by bill, which must be read three times. 16. Every act to contain but one subject. 17. Every act to be plainly worded. 18. Revisal or amendment of an act. 19. The Legislature may not pass local or special laws in certain cases. Executive Department. 1. Officers composing the same. 2. Said officers to be elected by qualified electors of the State. 3. To be eligible for election to State offices. 4. Governor to be commander-in chief. 5. Supreme executive power vested in Governor. 6. If vacancies occur. 7. Board of pardons. 8. The Governor may require in formation in writing from State officers. 9. The Governor may on extraor dinary occasions convene the Legislature by proclamation. 10. All bills before becoming a law shall be presented to the Governor for his approval or disapproval. 11. The Governor may object to items in a bill, in which case they are to be reconsidered. 12. When the Lieutenant-Governor shall act as Governor. 13. The Lieutenant-Governor shall be president of the Senate. 14. When president of Senate pro tempore is to act as Governor. 15. In regard to the seal of the State. 16. Grants and permissions, how signed and sealed. 17. A semi-annual report to be made to the Governor of all money received and spent by the State. Section 18. Board of State prison commis sioners. 19. Salaries. Section 17. Salary of justices of Supreme Court and of judges of the District Courts. 18. District Attorney, term of office and salary. 19. How vacancies are to be filled. 20. District Court, jurisdiction of. 21. Probate Courts, jurisdiction of. 22. Justices of the peace, jurisdic tion of. 23. To be eligible for office of dis trict judge. 24. Enumeration of the judicial districts. 25. In regard to defects or omis sions in the laws. 26. All general laws to be uniform in operation. 27. Right to increase or diminishi salaries. ARTICLE V. Judicial Department. 1. Civil and criminal actions de fined. 2. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a court for the trial of impeachments, a Supreme Court, District and Probate Courts, and Courts of Justices of the Peace. 3. When Governor is impeached, the Chief Justice shall preside. 5. Treason against the State, definition of. 6. Supreme Court to consist of three justices, a majority of whom shall be necessary to make a quorum, or pronounce a decision. 7. No justice of Supreme Court shall hold any other office in the State. 8. At least four terms of said court shall be held annually. 9. Supreme Court, jurisdiction of. 10. Shall have original jurisdiction to hear claims against the State. 11. State to be divided into five judicial districts.-A judge is to be chosen from each district-Term of office to be four years. 12. District judges to reside in the districts from which they are elected. 13. The Legislature shall have no power to deprive the judicial department of any power or jurisdiction which rightfully pertains to it. 14. The Legislature may provide for the establishment of special courts. 15. Clerk of Supreme Court, term of office and compensation. 16. Clerk of the District Court, term of office. ARTICLE VI. Suffrage and Elections 1. All elections by the people must be by ballot. 2. Qualified electors, who are. Women may vote at school elections. 3. Those who may not vote. 4. The Legislature may prescribe additional qualifications for the right of suffrage. 5. Service under the United States out of the State does not cause loss of residence. ARTICLE VII. Finance and Revenue. 1. Fiscal year to commence on second Monday of January in each year. 2. Such revenue as is needed is to be provided by taxation. 3. Property to be defined by law. 4. What property is exempt. 5. All laws to be uniform upon the same class of subjects. 6. For what the Legislature is not to impose taxes. 7. As to State taxes. 8. In regard to taxing corpora tions. |