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Mississippi held constitutional conventions in 1851 and 1861 about secession. [2] A few months before the start of the American Civil War in April 1861, Mississippi, a slave state located in the Southern United States, declared that it had seceded from the United States and joined the newly formed Confederacy, and it subsequently lost its representation in the U.S. Congress.
The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit of Appeals on a 13-6 vote upheld a provision of Republican-backed Mississippi state constitution that dates back to the Jim Crow era that today ...
Under the Mississippi Constitution, people lose the right to vote for 10 felonies, including bribery, theft and arson. ... Attorneys representing the state in one lawsuit argued that those changes ...
Under the Mississippi Constitution, those who have been convicted of 10 types of felonies lose the right to vote. In recent years, the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office has expanded the list ...
Amendment 1 of 2004 is an amendment to the Mississippi Constitution that prohibited same-sex marriages from being conducted or recognized in Mississippi.The Amendment passed a public referendum on November 2, 2004, with 86% of voters supporting and 14% opposing.
Under the Mississippi Constitution, people lose the right to vote for 10 felonies, including bribery, theft and arson. ... Attorneys representing the state in one lawsuit argued that those changes ...
The Mississippi Constitution prohibits amending a bill to change its original purpose. [19] Bills amended in the second house, must return it to the first for a vote to accept amendments. [ 20 ] All bills must be considered by a committee in each house. [ 21 ]
Mississippi legislators, not the courts, must decide whether to change the state's practice of stripping voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such ...