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Contents
- Preliminary Material
- Main Text
- Part One The History of the Arizona Constitution
- The History and Development of the Arizona Constitution
- Setting the Stage for the 1910 Convention
- The 1910 Constitutional Convention: The Setting and the Delegates
- How the Convention Operated
- An Overview of the Contentious Issues
- The Dominant Themes of the Arizona Constitution
- Power to the People
- Suffrage and Safeguarding the Purity of Elections and Government
- Allocating Power among Branches of Government
- Restraining Government by Securing Individual Rights
- Policing the Struggle between Capital and Labor
- Wealth and Taxation
- Providing for the Future: Children and Public Education
- Amending the Constitution
- A Slight Detour on the Way to Statehood
- Amendments to the 1910 Constitution
- The History and Development of the Arizona Constitution
- Part Two The Arizona Constitution and Commentary
- Preamble
- Art.I State Boundaries
- Art.II Declaration of Rights
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- s.2.1 Victims’ Bill of Rights.
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- s.17 Eminent Domain; just compensation for private property taken; public use as judicial question.
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- s.22 Bailable offenses.
- s.23 Trial by jury; number of jurors specified by law.
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- Accused’s Right to Counsel
- Accused’s Right to Appear
- Accused’s Right to Know the Nature and Cause of the Accusation against Him
- Accused’s Right to Testify in His Own Behalf
- Accused’s Right to Confront Witnesses against Him
- Accused’s Right to Compel Attendance of Witnesses in Her Behalf
- Accused’s Right to a Speedy Public Trial
- Accused’s Right to Trial by Jury
- Accused’s Right to an Impartial Jury
- Venue
- Accused’s Right of Appeal
- Accused’s Right to Avoid Advancing Money or Fees to Secure Rights
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- s.31 Damages for death or personal injuries.
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- s.35 Actions by illegal aliens prohibited.
- s.36 Preferential treatment or discrimination prohibited; exceptions; definition.
- s.37 Right to secret ballot; employee representation
- Art.III Distribution of Powers
- Art.IV Legislative Department
- Part I Initiative and Referendum
- Part 2 The Legislature
- s.1 Senate; house of representatives, members; special session upon petition of members; congressional and legislative boundaries; citizen commissions.
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- s.12 Procedure on bills; approval or disapproval by governor.
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- s.21 Term limits of members of state legislature.
- s.22 Juvenile justice; certain chronic and violent juvenile offenders prosecuted as adults; community alternatives for certain juvenile offenders; public proceedings and records.
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- Art.V Executive Department
- Art.VI Judicial Department
- s.1
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- s.3 Supreme Court; administrative supervision; chief justice.
- s.4 Supreme Court; term of office.
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- s.12 Superior Court; term of office.
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- s.14 Superior Court; original jurisdiction.
- s.15 Jurisdiction and authority in juvenile proceedings.
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- s.20 Retirement and service of retired justices and judges.
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- s.22 Superior and other courts; qualifications of judges.
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- s.28 Justices and judges; dual office holding; political activity; practice of law.
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- s.30 Courts of record.
- s.31 Judges pro tempore.
- s.32 Justices of the peace and inferior courts; jurisdiction, powers and duties; term of office; salaries.
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- s.35 Continuation in office; continued existence of offices; application of prior statutes and rules.
- s.36 Commission on appellate court appointments and terms, appointments and vacancies on commission.
- s.37 Judicial vacancies and appointments; initial terms; residence; age.
- s.38 Declaration of candidacy; form of judicial ballot, rejection and retention; failure to file declaration.
- s.39 Retirement of justices and judges; vacancies.
- s.40 Option for counties with less than two hundred fifty thousand persons.
- s.41 Superior court divisions; commission on trial court appointments; membership; terms.
- s.42 Retention evaluation of justices and judges.
- Art.VI-I Commission on Judicial Conduct
- Art.VII Suffrage and Elections
- s.1
- s.2 Qualifications of voters; disqualification.
- s.3 Voting residence of federal employees and certain others.
- s.4
- s.5
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- s.7 Highest number of votes received as determinative of person elected.
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- s.10 Direct primary election law.
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- s.15 Qualifications for public office.
- s.16
- s.17
- s.18 Term limits on ballot appearances in congressional elections.
- Art.VIII Removal from Office
- Art.IX Public Debt, Revenue, and Taxation
- s.1 Surrender of power of taxation; uniformity of taxes.
- s.2 Property subject to taxation; exemptions.
- s.2.1 Exemption from tax; property of widowers.
- s.2.2: Exemption from tax; property of disabled persons.
- s.2.3 Exemption from tax; increase in amount of exemptions, assessments and income.
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- s.7 Gift or loan of credit; subsidies; stock ownership; joint ownership.
- s.8 Local debt limits; assent of taxpayers.
- s.8.1 Unified school district debt limit.
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- s.10
- s.11 Taxing procedure; license tax on registered vehicles.
- s.12
- s.12.1 Temporary taxes; repeal from and after May 31, 2013
- s.13 Inventory, materials and products of manufacturers; production livestock and animals; tax exemption.
- s.14 Use and distribution of vehicle, user, and gasoline and diesel tax receipts.
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- s.16
- s.17 Economic estimates commission; appropriation limitation; powers and duties of commission.
- s.18 Residential ad valorem tax limits; limit on increase in values; definitions.
- s.19 Limitation on ad valorem tax levied; exceptions.
- s.20 Expenditure limitation; adjustments; reporting.
- s.21 Expenditure limitations for school districts and community college districts.
- s.22 Vote required to increase state revenues; application; exceptions.
- s.23 Expenditures required by initiative or referendum; funding source
- s.24 Prohibition of new real property sale or transfer taxes.
- Art.X State and School Lands
- Art.XI Education
- s.1 Public school system; education of pupils who are hearing and vision impaired.
- s.2
- s.3 State board of education; composition; powers and duties; compensation.
- s.4
- s.5 Regents of the university and other governing boards; appointments by governor; membership of governor on board of regents.
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- s.8 Permanent state school fund; source; apportionment of state funds.
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- Art.XII Counties
- Art.XIII Municipal Corporations
- Art.XIV Corporations other than Municipal
- Art.XV The Corporation Commission
- s.1 Term limits on corporation commission; composition; election; office vacancies; qualifications.
- s.2 “Public service corporation” defined.
- s.3
- s.4
- s.5 Power to issue certificates of incorporation and licenses.
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- s.10 Railways as public highways; other corporations as common carriers.
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- Art.XVI Militia
- Art.XVII Water Rights
- Art.XVIII Labor
- Art.XIX Mines
- Art.XX Ordinance
- Art.XXI Mode of Amending
- Art.XXII Schedule and Miscellaneous
- Art.XXIII Prohibition
- Art.XXIV Prohibition
- Art.XXV Right to Work
- Art.XXVI Right of Licensed Real Estate Brokers and Salesmen to Prepare Instruments Incident to Property Transactions
- Art.XXVII Regulation of Public Health, Safety and Welfare
- Art.XXVIII English as the Official Language
- Art.XXIX Public Retirement Systems
- Art.XXX Marriage.
- Part One The History of the Arizona Constitution
- Further Material
