Kansas Constitution

By Government of Kansas

"Kansas Constitution," popularly referred to as "The Wyandotte Constitution". This constitution was approved in a referendum on October 4, 1859. It settled the terms of Kansas' admission to the United States, particularly establishing that it would be a free state rather than a slave state. The constitution represented a pragmatic compromise over hotly contested issues: it rejected slavery and affirmed separate property rights for married women and their right to participate in school elections, but also denied universal suffrage for women, blacks, and Indians.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 8, 2020
• ISBN: 4064066312930

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Government of Kansas

Kansas Constitution

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066312930

Table of Contents

PREAMBLE

Article 1 - EXECUTIVE

Section 1.

Section 2.(Repealed)

Section 3.

Section 4.

Section 5.

Section 6.

Section 7.

Section 8.(Repealed)

Section 9

Section 11.

Section 12.

Section 13.

Article 2 - LEGISLATIVE

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.

Section 4.

Section 5.

Section 7.(Repealed)

Section 8.

Section 9.

Section 10.

Section 11.(Repealed)

Section 12.

Section 13.

Section 14.

Section 15.

Section 16.

Section 17.

Section 18.

Section 19.

Section 20.

Section 21.

Section 22.

Section 23.(Repealed)

Section 24.

Section 25.(Repealed)

Section 26.(Repealed)

Section 27.

Section 28.

Section 29.(Repealed)

Section 30.

Article 3 - JUDICIAL

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.

Section 4.

Section 5.

Section 6.

Section 7.

Section 7.(Repealed)

Section 8.

Section 9.(Repealed)

Section 10.(Repealed)

Section 11.(Repealed)

Section 12.

Section 13.

Section 14.(Repealed)

Section 15.

Section 16.

Article 4 - ELECTIONS

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.

Article 5 - SUFFRAGE

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.(Repealed)

Section 4.

Section 5.(Repealed)

Section 6.(Repealed)

Section 7.

Article 6 - EDUCATION

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.

Section 4.

Section 5.

Section 6.

Section 7.

Article 7 - PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND WELFARE

Section 1.

Section 2.(Repealed)

Section 3.(Repealed)

Section 4.

Section 5.

Section 6.

Article 8 - MILITIA

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.

Section 4.

Article 9 - COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.(Repealed)

Section 4.(Repealed)

Section 5.

Article 10 - APPORTIONMENT OF THE LEGISLATURE

Section 1.

Article 11 - FINANCE AND TAXATION

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.(Repealed)

Section 4.

Section 5.

Section 6.

Section 7.

Section 8.

Section 9.

Section 10.

Section 11.

Section 12.

Section 13.

Article 12 - CORPORATIONS

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.(Repealed)

Section 4.

Section 5.

Section 6.

Article 13 - BANKS

Section 1.

Section 2.

Article 14 - CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND REVISION

Section 1.

Section 2.

Article 15 - MISCELLANEOUS

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.

Section 3a.

Section 3b.

Section 3c.

Section 4.(Repealed)

Section 5.

Section 6.

Section 7.

Section 8.

Section 9.

Section 10.

Section 11.(Repealed)

Section 12.

Section 13.

Section 14.

Section 15.

Section 16.

Kansas Bill of Rights

PREAMBLE

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We, the people of Kansas, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges, in order to insure the full enjoyment of our rights as American citizens, do ordain and establish this constitution of the state of Kansas, with the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at a point on the western boundary of the state of Missouri, where the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude crosses the same; thence running west on said parallel to the twenty-fifth meridian of longitude west from Washington; thence north on said meridian to the fortieth parallel of north latitude; thence east on said parallel to the western boundary of the state of Missouri; thence south with the western boundary of said state to the place of beginning

Article 1 - EXECUTIVE

Section 1.

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Executive officers; selection; terms. The constitutional officers of the executive department shall be the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and attorney general, who shall have such qualifications as are provided by law. Such officers shall be chosen by the electors of this state at the time of voting for members of the legislature in the year 1974 and every four years thereafter, and such officers elected in 1974 and thereafter shall have terms of four years which shall begin on the second Monday of January next after their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified. In the year 1974 and thereafter, at all elections of governor and lieutenant governor the candidates for such offices shall b e nominated and elected jointly in such manner as is prescribed by law so that a single vote shall be cast for a candidate for governor and a candidate for lieutenant governor running together, and if such candidates are nominated by petition or convention each petition signature and each convention vote shall be made for a candidate for governor and a candidate for lieutenant governor running together. No person may be elected to more than