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Constitutional Revision Study Documents of the Constitutional Convention Commission, 1968
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
A TABULATION BY STATES OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS FOR
MILITIA AND MILITARY DEPARTMENTS1
The chart below indicates for each state (Maryland omitted) (1) the year
its constitution was adopted; (2) how each constitution provides for militia and
military departments—whether (a) by separate article, or (b) in the Declaration
of Rights; and (3) the relationship of militia and military departments to the
governor and the legislature.

State
Date of In
Adop- Declaration
tion Separate Article Of Rights
Under
Governor

alabama ..........
1901 Art. XV, §§271-78; legislature
provides for organization ;
conforms to federal regula-
tions ; elect their own officers ;
volunteer organizations may
be formed; governor and
Senate appoint general of-
ficers; legislature provides for
safekeeping of arm, etc.
Governor is
commander-
in-chief.

alaska ............
1959 Right to bear
arms.
Art. III, § 19
military
authority ;
§ 20, martial
law, governor
is command-
er-in-chief;
can call out
forces to ex-
ecute laws,
suppress or
prevent insur-
rection; as
provided by
law, can ap-
point all gen-
.eral and flag
officers, sub-
ject to con-
firmation of
legislature in
joint session ;
may proclaim
martial law
which shall
not continue
for more than
twenty days
without leg-
islative ap-
proval.

1 This article was prepared for the Commission by Mrs. Maurice P. Freedlander, a member
of the Maryland Constitutional Convention Commission; B.A., 1936, University of Pittsburgh;
M.A., 1962, The Johns Hopkins University.
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