CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, Section 2. Representatives. Qualifications. Number. 3. Senators. Qualifications. Num bers. Vacancies. 4. General Assembly shall meet bi ennially. Time of first meet ing. 5. Each house, officers of. 6. Each house shall judge of the elction and qualifications of its own members. Quorum. 7. Punishment of members. 8. Each house to keep a journal. 9. The doors of each house to be kept open, except. 10. Neither house shall adjourn for more than three days. 11. Compensation and privileges. 12. No representative senator or equal. 4. Trial by jury. 5. The press. 6. The people to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures. 7. In criminal prosecutions the ac cused has a right to be heard by himself and his counsel. 8. No person shall for any indict able offense be proceeded against criminally except. 9. All courts shall be open. Jus tice administered without sale or denial. 10. Suspending laws. 11. Excessive bail or fines shall not be imposed. 12. Privileges of prisoners. 13. Habeas corpus. 14. Oyer and Terminer. 15. Attainder, suicide, deodand. 16. The citizens have a right to meet together peaceably to consult for the common good. 17. No standing army; the military subordinate to the civil power. 18. Quartering soldiers. 19. No hereditary distinction shall be granted. shall be elected or appointed to any office created during his term. 13. Vacancies, how filled. 14. Revenue bills. 15. No money shall be drawn from the public treasury but by ap propriation. ARTICLE III. are vested in the Governor. 2. The Governor, his election. In case of tie. Contested tions. 3. Tenure of office. 4. Qualifications, 5. Disqualification. 6. Compensation. 7. The Governor to be Commander ARTICLE II. 1. Legislative power of the State vested in General Assembly. Section 4. Court of General Sessions of the peace. 5. Court of Chancery. 6. Court of Oyer and Terminer. 7. Court of Error and Appeals. Questions of law. 8. In matters of chancery jurisdic tion in which the chancellor is interested, the Chief Justice sitting in the Superior Court shall have jurisdiction. 9. The Governor shall have the power to commission a judge ad litem. 10. Orphans' Court. 11. The jurisdiction of each of the aforesaid courts shall be co extensive with the State. 12. General Assembly may alter. 13. Until the General Assembly shall otherwise provide, the Chancellor shall exercise all powers, etc. 14. Tenure of office, salaries. 15. Inferior courts. 16. Amending pleadings.- Dispost tion. 17. At any time pending an action for debt or damages, the defendant may bring into court the sum of money for dis charging the same. 18. Suits may survive. 19. Security on appeal and error. 20. Limitation of writs of error. 21. Executors, administrators and guardians' accounts. - Excep tions. 22. Registers Court to be held in each county. 23. Prothonotaries.-Lien of judg ments. 24. The Governor shall appoint a competent number of justices of the peace. 25. The style of process. ARTICLE V. 1. The House of Representatives has the sole power of impeach ing. 2. The Governor and all other civil officers under this State shall be liable to impeachment. 3. Treason against the State. De finition of. ARTICLE VI. 1. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in the Court of Errors and Appeals. The Superior Court, Court of Chancery and Orphans' Court, a Court of Oyer and Terminer, a Court of General Sessions of the peace and jail delivery, a Registers' Court. Justices of the peace, etc. 2. To compose the said courts there shall be five judges in the State. 3. Superior Court to consist of Chief Justice and two associates. ARTICLE VII. 1. Conservators of the peace. 2. Representatives in Congress. 3. Sheriff and coroner.-Term ot office. 4. Tenure of certain officials. |