Daily Intelligencer

The New Constitution of Missouri.
A Thorough Going Schedule of the Changes Wrought by the Rebellion

The following are the principal provisions of the new Constitution of the State of Missouri, which is to be voted upon on the 6th of June:

1. The Constitution, in its first sentence recognizes our dependence as a people upon Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of nations, for our State Government, our liberties, and our connection with the American Union.
2. Declares Missouri a Free State forever.
3. Establishes the equality of all men before the law. Prohibits legislation interfering with the personal rights of men on account of their color.
5. Asserts that all government, of right, originated from the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.
6. Affirms that the people of Missouri are a part of the American nation.
7. Declares that Missouri shall ever remain a member of the American Union.
8. Asserts the paramount allegiance of every citizen of Missouri to the Constitution and Government of the United States.
9. Excludes from the ballot-box and from office, traitors, rebels, rebel sympathizers, guerrilla marauders, bushwhackers, and their aiders and abettors.
10. In like manner, excludes Knights of the Golden Circle, Sons of Liberty, and O. A. K.'s.
11. In like manner, excludes those who fled the State to escape the draft.
12. In like manner, excludes those who enrolled themselves as disloyal, or as Southern sympathizers to avoid militia duty.
13. Provides for an efficient registration of voters, thereby securing the exclusion of illegal votes.
14. Removes the rule requiring treason to be proved by at least two witnesses, and leaves it to be proved as any other crime.
16. 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.
16. Forbids private, local, and special legislation, which for thirty years has cursed this State, and brings the State under a uniform system of general laws.
17. Prohibits lotteries.
18. Forbids the Legislature making compensation for emancipated slaves.
19. Forbids the Legislature removing the county seat of any county, unless at a general election, two-thirds of the voters of the county vote for it.
20. Shortens the term of office of the Governor and other State officers at the seat of Government, after the present term, to two years.
21. Establishes intermediate appellate courts between the Circuit Courts and the Supreme Court, without increased expense to the State.
22. Stops the creation of corporations by special acts, with enormous and dangerous powers, and requires all corporations to be formed under general laws.
23. Prohibits the creation, renewal or extension of the charter of any bank of issue.
24. Protects the interests of the people by imposing upon stockholders individual liability for the debts of corporations, and so insures a more honest and faithful management of those institutions.
Secures an efficient system of common schools for the free education of the children of the State.
26. Restores to the rank and file of the militia the privilege of choosing their own company and regimental officers.
27. Removes the injustice to the masses of the people, of enormous exemptions of property from taxation.
28. Forbids the loan of the credit of the State to any company or corporation.
29. Prohibits the Legislature authorizing any county, city or town to become a stockholder in, or to loan its credit to, any company or corporation, unless with the assent of two-thirds of the qualified voters.
30. Forbids the release of the State's lien upon any railroad.
31. Gives increased facilities for its own amendment, and allows the people a direct vote upon every amendment proposed.
32. Provides for calling a convention to revise and amend the constitution, whenever the people, being authorized by law to vote upon the question, shall vote in favor of it, and not otherwise.