Alabama Constitution

Article I

Equality and rights of men

People source of power

Religious freedom

Freedom of speech and press

Unreasonable search and seizure; search warrants

Rights of persons in criminal prosecutions generally; self-incrimination; due process of law; right to speedy, public trial; change of venue

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

Right to trial by jury

Prosecutions for libel or for publication of papers investigating official conduct of public officers

Courts to be open; remedies for all injuries; impartiality of justice

State not to be made defendant

Excessive fines; cruel or unusual punishment

Right to bail; excessive bail

Suspension of habeas corpus

Treason against the state

Bills of attainder of treason by legislature prohibited; conviction not to work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate

Imprisonment for debts

Suspension of laws

Ex post facto laws; impairment of obligations of contracts; irrevocable or exclusive grants of special privileges or immunities

Eminent domain

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

Right to bear arms

Standing army; military subordinate to civil power

Quartering of soldiers in houses

Titles of nobility, hereditary distinction, etc.; restriction on appointments to office

Immigration, emigration and exile