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Constitutional Revision Study Documents of the Constitutional Convention Commission, 1968
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[LEGISLATIVE BRANCH] COMPARISON

 		 Present
Constitution 		Constitution of
1867 		Constitution of
1864 		Constitution of
1851 		Constitution of
1776 		Amendments to
1776 Constitution

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
marine, of this or the United
States, shall have a seat in
the general assembly or the
council of this State.
39. That if any senator,
delegate to Congress or as-
sembly, or member of the
council, shall hold or execute
any office of profit, or receive
directly or indirectly, at any
time, the profits or any part
of the profits of any office
exercised by any other per-
son, during his acting as
senator, delegate to Congress
or assembly, or member of
the council, his seat, on con-
viction in a court of law,
by the oath of two credible
witnesses, shall be void, and
he shall suffer the punish-
ment for wilful and corrupt
perjury, or be banished this
State for ever, or disquali-
fied for ever from holding
any office or place of trust
or profit, as the court may
adjudge.
during the time he shall
continue to act as such, shall
be eligible to any civil office
whatever.

Senators or
Delegates:
Words spoken
in debate; im-
munity from
arrest and
prosecutions. 		Sec. 18. No Senator or
Delegate shall be liable in
any civil action, or crinunal
prosecution, whatever, for
words spoken in debate. 		Sec. 18. No Senator or
Delegate shall be liable in
any civil action, or criminal
prosecution, whatever, for
words spoken in debate. 		Sec. 17. No Senator or
Delegate shall be liable in
any civil action or criminal
prosecution whatever, for
words spoken in debate. 		Sec. 27. No Senator or
Delegate shall be liable in
any civil action or criminal
prosecution whatever, for
words spoken in debate.
,
Sec. 26. The members of
each House shall, in all cases,
except treason, felony, or
other criminal offence, be
privileged from arrest during
their attendance at the ses-
sion of the General Assem-
bly, and in going to and re-
turning from the same, al-
lowing one day for every
thirty miles such member
may reside from the place at
which the General Assembly
is convened.
 
 
 
 

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