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CONSTITUTION

OF THE

STATE OF COLORADO.

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO.

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1. Boundaries.

2. Bill of rights.

3. Distribution of powers. 4. Executive department. 5. Legisative department. 6. Judicial department. 7. Suffrage and elections. 8. State institutions.

9. Education.

10. Revenue.

11. Public indebtedness.

12. Officers.

13. Impeachments.

14. Counties.

15. Corporations.

16. Mining and Irrigation.

17. Militia.

18. Miscellaneous.

19. Future amendments.

Schedule.

ARTICLE I. Boundaries.

1. The boundaries of the State shall be as follows.

ARTICLE II.

Bill of Rights.

1. All political power is vested in the people.

2. The people have the sole and exclusive right to govern themselves.

3. They have certain inalienable rights.

4. Freedom of religious thought and worship.

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5. All elections shall be free and

open.

6. The courts shall be open and justice administered without sale or delay.

7. Unreasonable searches and seizures forbidden.

8. How all persons shall be proceeded against criminally.

9. Treason against the State defined.

10. Freedom of speech. In prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence.

11. That no ex post facto law shall be passed.

12. No person shall be imprisoned for debt, unless.

13. The right to bear arms.

14. Private property not to be taken for private use, except.

15. Private property not to be taken for public or private use, without just compensation.

16. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to appear and defend in person and with counsel.

17. Witnesses not to be unnecessarily detained.

18. No person compelled to testify against himself. No person put in jeopardy twice for the same offense.

19. Ball shall be accepted. except for capital offenses.

20. Excessive bail or excessive fines shall not be required, nor cruel. punishments inflicted.

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1. The executive department to consist of whom.

2. The supreme executive power of the State vested in the Governor.

3. The manner of electing State officers. In case of tie, how decided.

4. To be eligible for the office of Governor, etc.

5. The Governor shall be Com

mander-in-Chief of the militia. 6. The Governor shall nominate those officers whose offices are established by this Constitution.- In case of vacancies, how filled.

7. The Governor shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons.

8. He may require information from the officers of the executive department.

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shall be appointed to any civil office under the State.

9. No member of either house during his term shall receive an increase of salary.

10. President of the Senate, speaker of the House, presidents and speakers of House and other officers.

11. The majority of each house shall constitute a quorum.

12. Each house shall determine its rules and proceedings and punish its own members for disorderly behavior.

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

14. Sessions of each house to be open, unless.

15. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days.

16. When members shall be privileged from arrest.

17. No law shall be passed except by bill.

18. The style of the laws.

19. No act of the General Assembly shall take effect until after ninety days after its passage, unless.

20. Requirements for a bill to become a law.

21. Only general appropriation bills shall contain more than one subject.

22. Every bill shall be read a length on three different days in each house.

23. Members to vote by ayes and

noes, and the names of those voting to be recorded in the journal.

24. No law shall be amended by

reference to its title only.

25. The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases.

26. The presiding officer of each house shall in the presence of each house over which it presides, sign all bills, etc.

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27. The number, duties and compensation of officers of each house shall be prescribed by law.

28. No bills shall be passed giving any extra compensation to any public officer, servant or employe, etc.

29. In regard to stationery, printing, fuel, etc.

30. Except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, no law shall extend the term of any public officer or increase or diminish his salary, etc.

31. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.

32. The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing else. 33. No money shall be paid out of the treasury except upon appropriation.

34. No appropriations shall be made for charitable, educational or other benevolent purposes, which are not under the absolute control of the State.

35. The eGneral Assembly shall not delegate any special commission, private corporation, etc., to interfere with any municipal improvement, etc. 36. No act of the General Assembly shall authorize the investment of trust funds by executors, etc., in the bonds or stock of any private corporations. 37. The power to change the venue in civil and criminal cases vested in the courts. 38. No obligation or liability of any person, etc., shall be held or owned by the State. 39. Orders, resolution or votes, to which the concurrence of both house may be necessary, shall be approved by the Governor before taking effect.

40. Members of either house may not promise to give their vote or influence for or against any measure; should he do so he

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