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  1. Overview: Wyoming State Constitutional Convention 1889
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  3. Committee:Committee of the Whole
  4. Session: 1889-09-25 00:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

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 6527: 1889-09-25 00:00:00

The committee further considered the article on Revenue and Taxation. The Preamble was then taken up for consideration.

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Preamble [File No. 88, Committee of the Whole]

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Preamble

We, the People of the State of Wyoming, grateful to God for our civil, political and religiose liberties, and desiring to secure them to ourselves and to perpetuate them to our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution.

Declaration of Rights

Section 1. All power is inherit in the people and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness; for the advancement of these ends they have at all times an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think proper.

Section 2. In their inherent right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, all members of the human race are equal.

Section 3. Since equality in the enjoyment of natural and civil rights is only made sure through political equality, the laws of this State affecting the political rights and privileges of its citizens shall be without distinction of race, color, sex, or any circumstances or condition whatsoever other than individual incompetency or unworthiness, duly ascertained by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Section 4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issue but upon probable, cause, supported by affidavit, particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized.

Section 5. No person shall be imprisoned for debt.

Section 6. No person shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized of his freeholds, liberties or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land.

Section 7. Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.

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