Article I. Bill of Rights
Index
- § 1. Equality and Rights of Men
- § 2. People the Source of Power
- § 3. Government Instituted For Common Benefit
- § 4. No Exclusive Emoluments Or Privileges; Offices Not to Be Hereditary
- § 5. Separation of Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Departments; Periodical Elections
- § 6. Free Elections; Consent of Governed
- § 7. Laws Should Not Be Suspended
- § 8. Criminal Prosecutions
- § 8-A. Rights of Victims of Crime
- § 9. Prohibition of Excessive Bail and Fines, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Suspension of Habeas Corpus, Bills of Attainder, and Ex Post Facto Laws
- § 10. General Warrants of Search Or Seizure Prohibited
- § 11. Due Process of Law; Obligation of Contracts; Taking of Private Property; Prohibited Discrimination; Jury Trial In Civil Cases
- § 12. Freedom of Speech and of the Press; Right Peaceably to Assemble, and to Petition
- § 13. Militia; Standing Armies; Military Subordinate to Civil Power
- § 14. Government Should Be Uniform
- § 15. Qualities Necessary to Preservation of Free Government
- § 15-A. Marriage
- § 16. Free Exercise of Religion; No Establishment of Religion
- § 17. Construction of the Bill of Rights