COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
	or property without due process of law, nor	Law of the Land, and ought to have
	be denied the equal protection of the laws,	justice and right, freely without sale, fully
	nor be subject to discrimination by the State	without any denial, and speedily without
	because of race, color, religion, or national	delay, according to the Law of the Land.
	origin.	Art. 20. That the trial of facts, where
		they arise, is one of the greatest securities
		of the lives, liberties and estate of the
		People.
		Art. 23. That no man ought to be taken
		or imprisoned or disseized of his freehold,
		liberties or privileges, or outlawed, or
		exiled, or, in any manner, destroyed, or
		deprived of his life, liberty or property,
		but by the judgment of his peers, or by the
		Law of the Land.
		Art. III, sec. 53. No person shall be
		incompetent, as a witness, on account of
		race or color, unless hereafter so declared
		by Act of the General Assembly.
	Section 1.04. Fair Treatment in Investiga-
	tions.
	No person shall be denied the right to fair
	and just treatment in any investigation con-
	ducted by the State or by any unit of local
	government, or by any of their departments
	or agencies.
	Section 1.05. Searches and Seizures.	Art. 26. That all warrants, without oath
	The right of the people to be secure in	or affirmation, to search suspected places,
	their persons, houses, papers, and effects	or to seize any person or property, are
	against unreasonable searches, seizures, inter-	grievous and oppressive; and all general
	ceptions of their communications, or other	warrants to search suspected places, or to
	invasions of their privacy, shall not be violat-	apprehend suspected persons, without nam-
	ed, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affir-	ing or describing the place, or the person in special, are illegal, and ought not to
	mation, and particularly describing the place	be granted.
	to be searched and the persons or things to
	be seized, or the communications sought to
	be intercepted.
	Section 1.06. Grand Jury Indictment.
	No person shall be held to answer for a fe-
	lony unless on indictment of a grand jury,
	except in cases arising in the militia while in
	actual service.
	Section 1.07. Rights of Accused.	Art. 21. That in all criminal prosecu-
	A person accused of crime shall have the	tions, every man hath a right to be in-
	right to be informed of the nature and cause	formed of the accusation against him; to
	of the accusation in time to prepare his de-	have a copy of the Indictment, or charge,
	fense, to have the assistance of counsel for	in due time (if required) to prepare for
	his defense, to be confronted with and to ex-	his defence; to be allowed counsel; to be
	amine under oath or affirmation the	confronted with the witnesses against him;
	witnesses against him, to have compulsory	to have process for his witnesses; to examine
	process for obtaining witnesses, and to have a	the witnesses for and against him on oath;

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