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Alabama Constitution
Adopted by Constitutional Convention September 3, 1901
Ratified by vote of the People November 28, 1901Sections
- Article I
- Article II. State and County Boundaries
- Article III. Distribution of Powers of Government
- Article IV. Legislative Department
- Article V. Executive Department
- Article VI. Judicial Department
- Article VII. Impeachments
- Article VIII. Suffrage and Elections
- Article IX. Representation
- Article X. Exemptions
- Article XI. Taxation
- Article XII. Corporations
- Article XIII. Banks and Banking
- Article XIV. Education
- Article XV. Militia
- Article XVI. Oath of Office
- Article XVII. Miscellaneous Provisions
- Article XVIII. Mode of Amending the Constitution
- Ratification
- Amendments
Article I
Unreasonable search and seizure; search warrants
Accusation, arrest and detention; punishment limited to laws established prior to offense
Proceeding against person by information; grand jury not required in misdemeanor cases
Double jeopardy; discharge of juries from cases
Right to prosecute civil cause
Courts to be open; remedies for all injuries; impartiality of justice
State not to be made defendant
Excessive fines; cruel or unusual punishment
Navigable waters declared free public highways; taxes, tolls, etc., for use of shores or wharves
Right to peaceably assemble and petition for redress of grievances, etc
Standing army; military subordinate to civil power
Quartering of soldiers in houses
Titles of nobility, hereditary distinction, etc.; restriction on appointments to office
