CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MAINE. Preamble. Section 20. Trial by jury. 21. Private property not to be taken without just compensation. 22. Taxes. 23. Titles of nobility prohibited. Tenure of office limited. 24. Other rights not impaired. ARTICLE II. Electors. ARTICLE I. Declaration of Rights. Section 1. Natural rights. 2. All power inherent in the peo ple. 3. Religious freedom. Proviso. All sects equal. Religious test prohibited. Right to elect re ligious teachers. 4. Freedom of speech and publica cation. Truth may be given in evidence. 5. Unreasonable searches. 6. Rights of persons accused. 7. No person to answer to a capital or infamous crime but on in dictment. Exceptions. Juries. 8. Not to be put in jeopardy twice for the same offense. 9. Sanguinary laws prohibited. 10. Bailable offenses. Habeas cor pus. 11. Bills of attainder, etc., pro hibited. 12. Treason. 13. Suspension of laws. 14. Carporal punishment under mili tary law. 15. Right of petition. 16. Right to keep and bear arms. 17. Standing armies not to be kept. 18. No soldiers to be quartered on citizens in time of peace. 19. Right of redress for injuries. 1. Qualifications of electors. Writ ten ballot. Soldiers or seamen in U. S. service. Students at colleges and academies. Residence not lost by reason of absence, in the military service of Maine or of the United States. 2. Electors exempt from arrest on election days; 3. And from military duty. 4. Time of State election. Citizens absent in temporary military service of the U. S. or of Maine may vote. Polls, where opened. Vote, how taken. Who shall act as supervisors. Supervisors shall be sworn. Their duties. Proviso. Where certain officers may vote. Supervisors shall prepare ballot boxes. Ballots, how prepared. Qualification of voters. Supervisors shall keep correct poll lists; check names of voters; sort, count and declare votes; and make return to Secretary of State's office. Section be taxed according to its value. 9. Taxation, 10. Sheriffs, how elected and tenure of office. 11. Attorney-General, how to be elected. Vacancy, how filled. 12. Soldiers, who may be allowed to vote for county officers. 13. Bribery at elections. 14. Credit of State shall not be loaned. Creation of State debt, limited. Exceptions. ment of municipal war debt. $3,500,000. inhabitants, and towns having Section by chief justice of Supreme supreme law of the State. 4. Section one, two and five of ar ticle ten, shall be omitted from printed copies. Section five remains in force. AMENDMENTS. ited to five per cent of the last regular valuation. XXIII. Biennial elections and bien nial sessions of the legis lature. | XXIV. Governor shall be elected by a plurality of the popular vote. XXV. Biennial terms of senators and representatives. ARTICLE X. Schedule. 1. Laws now in force, continue until repealed. PREAMBLE. We, the people of Maine, in order to establish justice, insure tranquillity, provide for our mutual defense, promote our common welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty, acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording us an opportunity, so favorable to the design; and, imploring His aid and direction in its accomplishment, do agree to form ourselves into a free and independent State, by the style and title of the State of Maine, and do ordain and establish the following Constitution for the government of the same. ARTICLE I. Declaration of Rights. Section 1. All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and inalienable rights, among |