CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF INDIANA
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Constitution of the State of Indiana

Approved in Convention at Indianapolis,
February 10, 1851
Adopted by the Electorate, effective November 1, 1851
As Amended through June 6, 2001

PREAMBLE

TO THE END, that justice be established, public order maintained, and liberty perpetuated; WE, the People of the State of Indiana, grateful to ALMIGHTY GOD for the free exercise of the right to choose our own form of government, do ordain this Constitution.

ARTICLE 1. Bill of Rights

Sec. 1. Inherent rights

Sec. 2. Right to worship

Sec. 3. Freedom of religious opinions

Sec. 4. Freedom of religion

Sec. 5. No religious test for office

Sec. 6. No state money for religious institutions

Sec. 7. Religion no bar to competency of witnesses

Sec. 8. Mode of oath administration

Sec. 9. Freedom of thought and speech

Sec. 10. Libel, truth as defense

Sec. 11. Search and seizure

Sec. 12. Openess of the courts, Speedy trial

Sec. 13. Rights of accused, Rights of victims

Sec. 14. Double jeopardy and self-incrimination

Sec. 15. Rights of persons arrested

Sec. 16. Excessive bail or fines, Cruel and unusual punishment

Sec. 17. Bailable offenses

Sec. 18. Penal code and reformation

Sec. 19. Criminal cases--Jury determination

Sec. 20. Civil cases--Right of trial by jury

Sec. 21. Compensation for services and property

Sec. 22. Debts--Imprisonment exemption

Sec. 23. Equal privileges and immunities

Sec. 24. Ex post facto laws

Sec. 25. Laws--Taking effect

Sec. 26. Suspension of laws

Sec. 27. Habeas corpus

Sec. 28. Treason defined

Sec. 29. Treason, proof

Sec. 30. Effect of conviction

Sec. 31. Right of assemblage and petition

Sec. 32. Arms--Right to bear

Sec. 33. Military

Sec. 34. Quartering of soldiers

Sec. 35. Titles of nobility

Sec. 36. Freedom of emigration

Sec. 37. Slavery--prohibition

ARTICLE 2. Suffrage and Election

Sec. 1. Elections

Sec. 2. Voting qualifications

Sec. 3. Repealed

Sec. 4. State residence

Sec. 5. Repealed

Sec. 6. Bribery

Sec. 7. Repealed

Sec. 8. Disfranchisement for infamous crime

Sec. 9. Lucrative offices--eligibility

Sec. 10. Accountability of defaulters

Sec. 11. Pro tempore appointments

Sec. 12. Freedom from arrest

Sec. 13. Election methods

Sec. 14. Time of elections--Registration

ARTICLE 3. Distribution of Powers

Sec. 1. Three departments

ARTICLE 4. Legislative

Sec. 1. General assembly

Sec. 2. Number of members

Sec. 3. Term of office

Sec. 4. Vacancies

Sec. 5. Apportionment

Sec. 6. Repealed

Sec. 7. Qualifications

Sec. 8. Privileges

Sec. 9. Sessions

Sec. 10. Organization and procedure

Sec. 11. Quorum

Sec. 12. Journals

Sec. 13. Public sessions

Sec. 14. Discipline of members

Sec. 15. Contempt

Sec. 16. General powers

Sec. 17. Origin of bills

Sec. 18. Reading of bills

Sec. 19. Subject-matter of bills

Sec. 20. Wording

Sec. 21. Repealed

Sec. 22. Local and special laws

Sec. 23. Generality of laws

Sec. 24. Suits against the state

Sec. 25. Passage of bills

Sec. 26. Protests

Sec. 27. Public laws

Sec. 28. Date acts take effect

Sec. 29. Compensation

Sec. 30. Eligibility for office

ARTICLE 5. Executive

Sec. 1. Governor

Sec. 2. Lieutenant governor

Sec. 3. Election

Sec. 4. Vote

Sec. 5. Tie vote

Sec. 6. Contesting the election

Sec. 7. Eligibility

Sec. 8. Ineligibility

Sec. 9. Term of office

Sec. 10. Vacancies

Sec. 11. President of the senate

Sec. 12. Commander-in-chief

Sec. 13. Recommendations

Sec. 14. Action on bills

Sec. 15. Transaction of business

Sec. 16. Execution of laws

Sec. 17. Reprieves--Commutations--Pardons

Sec. 18. Vacancies in office

Sec. 19. Repealed

Sec. 20. Meeting place of general assembly

Sec. 21. Rights and duties of lieutenant governor

Sec. 22. Compensation of governor

Sec. 23. Compensation of lieutenant governor

Sec. 24. Ineligible for other office

ARTICLE 6. Administrative

Sec. 1. State officers

Sec. 2. County officers

Sec. 3. Statutory officers

Sec. 4. Qualifications of county officers

Sec. 5. Residence of state officers

Sec. 6. Residence of other officers

Sec. 7. Impeachment of state officers

Sec. 8. Impeachment of other officers

Sec. 9. Vacancies

Sec. 10. County boards

Sec. 11. Repealed

ARTICLE 7. Judicial

Sec. 1. Judicial power

Sec. 2. Supreme Court

Sec. 3. Chief Justice

Sec. 4. Jurisdiction of Supreme Court

Sec. 5. Court of Appeals

Sec. 6. Jurisdiction of Court of Appeals

Sec. 7. Judicial circuits

Sec. 8. Circuit courts

Sec. 9. Judicial nominating commission

Sec. 10. Selection of justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the Court of Appeals

Sec. 11. Tenure of justices of Supreme Court and judges of the Court of Appeals

Sec. 12. Substitution of judges

Sec. 13. Removal of circuit court judges and prosecuting attorneys

Sec. 14. Repealed

Sec. 15. No limitation on term of office

Sec. 16. Prosecuting attorneys

Sec. 17. Grand jury

Sec. 18. Criminal prosecutions

Sec. 19. Pay

Sec. 20. Repealed

Sec. 21. Repealed

ARTICLE 8. Education

Sec. 1. Common school system

Sec. 2. Common school fund

Sec. 3. Principal and income

Sec. 4. Investment and distribution

Sec. 5. Reinvestment

Sec. 6. Liability of counties

Sec. 7. Trust funds

Sec. 8. Superintendent of public instruction

ARTICLE 9. State Institutions

Sec. 1. Deaf, mute, blind, and the insane

Sec. 2. Juvenile offenders

Sec. 3. County farms

ARTICLE 10. Finance

Sec. 1. Assessment and taxation

Sec. 2. Disposition of revenue

Sec. 3. Appropriations

Sec. 4. Publication of statement

Sec. 5. State debt

Sec. 6. Counties

Sec. 7. Wabash and Erie Canal

Sec. 8. Income tax

ARTICLE 11. Corporations