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Delaware Gazette
Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio
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Missouri's new constitution, adopted by majority vote, declares the state free forever, ensures equality before the law regardless of color, maintains union membership, excludes rebels and sympathizers from voting and office, reforms legislation, prohibits lotteries and special banks, and establishes free common schools.
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The following are the leading features of the new Constitution of Missouri, adopted by a majority of the people:
It declares Missouri a free State forever
It establishes the equality of all men before the law.
It prohibits legislation interfering with the personal rights of men on account of their color.
It declares that Missouri shall ever remain as a member of the American Union.
It excludes from the ballot box and from office, all traitors, rebels, rebel sympathizers, guerrillas, marauders, bush-whackers, and their aiders and abettors.
It in like manner excludes those who enrolled themselves as disloyal, or as Southern sympathizers, to avoid military duty.
It provides for an efficient registration of voters, thereby securing the exclusion of illegal voters.
It removes the rule requiring treason to be proved by at least two witnesses, and leaves it to be proved as any other crime.
It invites immigration from Europe by extending the elective franchise to those persons of foreign birth who have, more than one year before an election, declared their intention, according to law, to become citizens of the United States.
It forbids private, local and special legislation, which for 30 years has cursed the State, and brings the State under a uniform system of general laws.
It prohibits lotteries.
It forbids the Legislature making compensation for emancipated slaves.
It stops the creation of corporations by special acts, with enormous and dangerous powers, and requires all corporations to be formed under general laws.
It prohibits the creation, renewal or extension of the charter of any bank of issue.
It protects the interest of the people by imposing upon stock holders individual liability for the debts of corporations.
It secures an efficient system of common schools for the free education of the children of the State.
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Missouri
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adopted by a majority of the people
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The new Constitution of Missouri declares it a free State forever, establishes equality of all men before the law, prohibits legislation interfering with personal rights on account of color, declares Missouri shall remain in the American Union, excludes traitors, rebels, sympathizers, guerrillas, marauders, bush-whackers and aiders from ballot and office, excludes those who enrolled as disloyal to avoid military duty, provides for efficient voter registration, removes two-witness rule for treason, invites European immigration by extending franchise to those declaring intent to become citizens more than one year before election, forbids private local and special legislation, prohibits lotteries, forbids compensation for emancipated slaves, stops special corporation acts requiring general laws, prohibits bank of issue charters, imposes stockholder liability for corporate debts, secures efficient common schools.