Saturday, October 6, 2012

Just an idle observation on an unconstitutional constitutional provision



Hard to imagine this being challenged ever, since someone who did would be run out of the state on a rail.  But it plainly runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution:
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
Article 14. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Current through 2011 
§ 265. Denial of Supreme Being disqualification to hold office 
No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state. 
Source:
1817 art VI § 6; 1832 art VII § 5; 1869 art XII § 3.
Goes to show that you never know what you'll find when you go thumbing through the 1890 Constitution.


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