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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.
15th Mississippi Legislature [23] 15 November 21, 1831 December 20, 1831 16th Mississippi Legislature [24] 16 January 7, 1833 March 2, 1833 17th Mississippi Legslature [25] [26] 17 November 18, 1833 December 25, 1833 18 January 19, 1835 January 30, 1835 Mississippi Constitution of 1832: 1836–1838 Mississippi Legislature: 19 January 1836 ...
In 2004, Mississippi voters approved an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman with 86% of the vote. [15] Mississippi's ban on same-sex marriage was ruled unconstitutional by district judge Carlton W. Reeves in 2014, but enforcement of his decision was stayed pending appeal by the Fifth ...
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The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Jackson: Mississippi Department of Archives and History. OCLC 777030828. Welcome Guide (PDF), Mississippi Attorney General's Office, February 2023; Winkle, John W. III (2014). The Mississippi State Constitution (second ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199300631.
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On May 2, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in favor of MAIS. The ruling vacated the block, allowing the funding to reach private schools, and stated that PPS does not have standing to sue the ...
The Mississippi Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The bicameral Legislature is composed of the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, with 122 members, and the upper Mississippi State Senate, with 52 members. Both representatives and senators serve four-year terms without term limits.