Re: => Should Idiots or the Mentally Ill be Allowed to Vote ? <= or possess firearms ?
Reality_Check© wrote:
> Constitution Of The State Of Arkansas Of 1874.
> Article 3. Franchise and Elections.
> § 5. Idiots and insane persons.
> No idiot or insane person shall be entitled to the privileges of an
> elector.
> 1857 CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF IOWA -- CODIFIED
> ARTICLE II.
> RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE
> Disqualified persons. SEC. 5. No idiot, or insane person, or person
> convicted of any infamous crime, shall be entitled to the privilege
> of an elector.
>
> Kentucky Constitution
> Section 145
> Persons entitled to vote.
> Every citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years who
> has resided in the state one year, and in the county six months, and
> the precinct in which he offers to vote sixty days next preceding the
> election, shall be a voter in said precinct and not elsewhere but the
> following persons are excepted and shall not have the right to vote.
> ...
> 3. Idiots and insane persons.
>
> THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
> ARTICLE 12
> SECTION 241.
> Every inhabitant of this state, except idiots and insane persons, who
> is a citizen of the United States of America, eighteen (18) years old
> and upward, who has been a resident of this state for one (1) year,
> and for one (1) year in the county in which he offers to vote, and
> for six (6) months in the election precinct or in the incorporated
> city or town in which he offers to vote, and who is duly registered
> as provided in this article, and who has never been convicted of
> murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under
> false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement or bigamy, is declared
> to be a qualified elector, except that he shall be qualified to vote
> for President and Vice President of the United States if he meets the
> requirements established by Congress therefor and is otherwise a
> qualified elector.
> New Mexico Constitution, Article VII, section 1
> Every citizen of the United States, who is over the age of twenty-one
> years, and has resided in New Mexico twelve months, in the county
> ninety days, and in the precinct in which he offers to vote thirty
> days, next preceding the election, except idiots, insane persons and
> persons convicted of a felonious or infamous crime unless restored to
> political rights, shall be qualified to vote at all elections for
> public officers.
> The Ohio Constitution
> Article V, Section 6
> § 5.06 Idiots or insane persons
> No idiot, or insane person, shall be entitled to the privileges of an
> elector.
date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:44:17 -0600
author: Reality_Check?
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