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  1. Overview: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  2. Full Record: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
  3. Committee:The Convention
  4. Session: 1889-09-20 00:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889

The Wyoming Constitution Convention began September 2, 1889 without the authorization from an enabling act. The articles were individually voted on, creating the final Constitution of Wyoming on September 30, 1889. It was later ratified on November 5, 1889.

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Session 5948: 1889-09-20 00:00:00

The reports of the standing committees were presented. The Convention then resolved into the Committee of the Whole. The committee reported their progress and recommended substitutions for different files.

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Substitute for Files No. 9 and 36 [Convention]

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Section 1. The militia of the State shall consist of all able-bodied male citizens of the State between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, except such as are exempted by the laws of the Untied States, or of the State. But all such citizens having scruples of conscience averse to bearing arms shall be excused there from upon such conditions as shall be provided by law.

Section 2. The Legislature shall provide by law for the enrollment, equipment, and discipline of the militia, to conform as nearly as practicable, to the regulations, for the government of the armies of the United States.

Section 3. All militia officers shall be commissioned by the Governor, the manner of their selection to be provided by law and may hold their commissions for such period of time as the Legislature may provide.

Section 4. No military organization under the laws of the State shall carry any banner, or flag, representing any sect or society, or the flag of any nationality, but that of the United States.

Section 5. The Governor shall be the commander-in-chief of all the military forces of the State, and shall have power to call out the militia to preserve the public peace, to execute the laws of the State, to surpress insurrection or repel invasion.

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