States, prohibited from- Passing bills of attainder, ex post facto laws or laws impairing contracts. 449 PAGE 431 431 Laying impost, or duties, on imports and exports for their own use.. 431 Laying duties on tonnage without the consent of Congress. 432 Keeping troops or ships of war in time of peace... - - 432 Entering into any contract or agreement with another state, or a foreign power. 432 Engaging in war, unless invaded, or in imminent danger.. 432 States, new, may be admitted into the Union....... 435 States, may be formed within the jurisdiction of others, or by the junction of two or more, with 435 Judges of, bound to consider the treaties, the constitution, and the laws under it, as supreme.. 436 440 Each to be guaranteed a republican form of government, protected against invasion, and 435 Tax, capitation, or direct, shall be laid only in proportion to census. 431 On incomes, amendment Article XVI.. On exports from a state prohibited 442 431 Taxes, direct, shall be apportioned according to representation. Territory, or property belonging to the United States, Congress may make rules concerning. Titles. See Nobility 431 431 436 431 Title from foreign states. See Presents 431 Treason defined 434 Two witnesses, or confession, necessary for conviction.. 434 Punishment of, may be prescribed by Congress, with one limitation.. 434 Treason, or other crime, persons charged with in one state, fleeing into another, shall on demand Vacancies, in office happening during the recess of the senate.. In representation in senate, how filled, amendment Article XVII.. Vessels to enter, clear and pay duties in the states in which they arrive, or from which they depart.. 431 Warrants for searches and seizures, when and how they shall issue, 4th amendment. 428 441 440 433 433 430 438 439 444 15 Constitution of the State of Nevada [As amended up to and including November 5, 1918] PRELIMINARY ACTION WHEREAS, The act of Congress approved March twenty- Preamble first, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, "To enable the people of the Territory of Nevada to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states," requires that the members of the convention for framing said constitution shall, after organization, on behalf of the people of said. territory, adopt the constitution of the United States; therefore be it States 2. Resolved, That the members of this convention, elected United by the authority of the aforesaid enabling act of Congress, as constitution assembled in Carson City, the capital of said Territory of adopted Nevada, and immediately subsequent to its organization, do adopt, on behalf of the people of said territory, the constitution of the United States. ORDINANCE made 3. In obedience to the requirements of an act of the Con- Ordinance gress of the United States, approved March twenty-first, irrevocable A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to enable the people of Nevada to form a constitution and state government, this convention, elected and convened in obedience to said enabling act, do ordain as follows, and this ordinance shall be irrevocable, without the consent of the United States and the people of the State of Nevada: First-That there shall be in this state neither slavery nor slavery involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment for inhibited crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. worship Second-That perfect toleration of religious sentiment Freedom of shall be secured, and no inhabitant of said state shall ever secured be molested, in person or property, on account of his or her mode of religious worship. public land Third-That the people inhabiting said territory do agree, Right to and declare, that they forever disclaim all right and title to disclaimed the unappropriated public lands lying within said territory, and that the same shall be and remain at the sole and entire disposition of the United States; and that lands belonging to citizens of the United States, residing without the said state, shall never be taxed higher than the land belonging to residents thereof; and that no taxes shall be imposed by said |