New Hampshire Constitution (1990)

Part First - Bill of Rights
Article
 * l. Equality of men; origin and object of government.
 * 2. Natural rights.
 * 2-a. The bearing of arms.
 * 3. Society, its organization and purposes.
 * 4. Rights of conscience unalienable.
 * 5. Religious freedom recognized.
 * 6. Morality and piety.
 * 7. State sovereignty.
 * 8. Accountability of magistrates and officers; public's right to know.
 * 9. No hereditary office or place.
 * 10. Right of revolution.
 * 11. Elections and elective franchises.
 * 12. Protection and taxation reciprocal.
 * 13. Conscientious objectors not compelled to bear arms.
 * 14. Legal remedies to be free, complete, and prompt.
 * 15. Right of accused.
 * 16. Former jeopardy; jury trial in capital cases.
 * 17. Venue of criminal prosecution.
 * 18. Penalties to be proportioned to offenses; true design of punishment.
 * 19. Searches and seizures regulated.
 * 20. Jury trial in civil causes.
 * 21. Jurors; compensation
 * 22. Free speech; liberty of the press.
 * 23. Retrospective laws prohibited.
 * 24. Militia.
 * 25. Standing armies.
 * 26. Military, subject to civil power.
 * 27. Quartering of soldiers.
 * 28. Taxes, by whom levied.
 * 28-a. Mandated programs.
 * 29. Suspension of laws by legislature only.
 * 30. Freedom of speech.
 * 31. Meetings of legislature, for what purposes.
 * 32. Rights of assembly, instruction, and petition.
 * 33. Excessive bail, fines, and punishments prohibited.
 * 34. Martial law limited.
 * 35. The judiciary; tenure of office, etc.
 * 36. Pensions.
 * 36-a. Use of retirement funds.
 * 37. Separation of powers.
 * 38. Social virtues inculcated.
 * 39. Changes in town and city charters; referendum required.

Part Second - Form of Government

 * 1. Name of body politic.
 * 2. Legislature, how constituted.
 * 3. General court, when to meet and dissolve.
 * 4. Power of general court to establish courts.
 * 5. Power to make laws, elect officers, define their powers and duties, impose fines, and assess taxes; prohibited from authorizing towns to aid certain corporations.
 * 5-a. Continuity of government in case of enemy attack.
 * 5-b. Power to provide for tax valuations based on use.
 * 6. Valuation and taxation.
 * 6-a. Use of certain revenues restricted to highways.
 * 6-b. Use of Lottery Revenues Restricted to Educational Purposes.
 * 7. Members of legislature not to take fees or act as counsel.
 * 8. Open sessions of legislature.

House of Representatives

 * 9. Representatives elected every second year; apportionment of representatives.
 * 9-a. Legislative adjustments of census with reference to non-residents.
 * 10. [Repealed, 1889.]
 * 11. Small towns, representation by districts.
 * 11-a. Division of town, ward, or place; representative districts.
 * 12. Biennial election of representatives in November.
 * 13. [Repealed, 1976.]
 * 14. Representatives, how elected, qualifications of.
 * 15. Compensation of the legislature.
 * 16. Vacancies in house, how filled.
 * 17. House to impeach before the senate.
 * 18. Money bills to originate in house.
 * 18-a. Budget bills.
 * 19. Adjournment.
 * 20. Quorum, what constitutes.
 * 21. Privileges of members of the legislature.
 * 22. House to elect speaker and officers, settle rules of proceedings, and punish misconduct.
 * 23. Senate and executive have like powers; imprisonment limited.
 * 24. Journals and laws to be pub lished; yeas and nays, and protests.

Senate

 * 25. Senate; how constituted.
 * 26. Senatorial districts, how constituted.
 * 26-a. Division of town, ward, or lace; senatorial districts.
 * 27. Election of senators.
 * 28. [Repealed, 1976.]
 * 29. Qualifications of senators.
 * 30. Inhabitant defined.
 * 31. Inhabitants of unincorporated places; their rights, etc.
 * 32. Biennial meetings, how warned, governed, and conducted; return of votes, etc.
 * 33. Secretary of state to count votes for senators and notify persons elected.
 * 34. Vacancies in senate, how filled.
 * 35. Senate, judges of their own elections.
 * 36. Adjournment.
 * 37. Senate to elect their own officers; quorum.
 * 38. Senate to try impeachments; mode of proceeding.
 * 39. Judgment on impeachment limited.
 * 40. Chief justice to preside on impeachment of governor.

Executive Power --- Governor

 * 41. Governor, supreme executive magistrate.
 * 42. Election of governor, return of votes; electors; if no choice, legislature to elect one of two highest candidates; qualifications for governor.
 * 43. In cases of disagreement, governor to adjourn or prorogue legislature; if causes exist, may convene them elsewhere.
 * 44. Veto to bills.
 * 45. Resolves to be treated like bills.
 * 46. Nomination and appointment of officers.
 * 47. Governor and council have negative on each other.
 * 48. [Repealed, 1976.]
 * 49. President of senate, etc. to act as governor when office vacant; speaker of house to act when office of president of senate also vacant.
 * 49-a. Prolonged failure to qualify; vacancy in office of governor due to physical or mental incapacity, etc.
 * 50. Governor to prorogue or adjourn legislature, and call extra sessions.
 * 51. Powers and duties of governor as commander-in-chief.
 * 52. Pardoning power.
 * 53. [Repealed, 1976.]
 * 54. [Repealed, 1976.]
 * 55. [Repealed, 1976.]
 * 56. Disbursements from treasury.
 * 57. [Repealed, 1950.]
 * 58. Compensation of governor and council.
 * 59. Salaries of judges.

Council

 * 60. Councilors; mode of election, etc.
 * 61. Vacancies, how filled, if no choice.
 * 62. Subsequent vacancies; governor to convene; duties.
 * 63. Impeachment of councilors.
 * 64. Secretary to record proceedings of council.
 * 65. Councilor districts provided for.
 * 66. Elections by legislature may be adjourned from day to day; order thereof.

Secretary, Tresurer, Etc.

 * 67. Election of secretary and treasurer.
 * 68. State records, where kept; duty of secretary.
 * 69. Deputy secretary.
 * 70. Secretary to give bond.

County Treasurer, Etc.

 * 71. County treasurers, registers of probate, county attorneys, sheriffs, and registers of deeds elected.
 * 72. Counties may be divided into districts for registering deeds.

Judiciary Power

 * 72-a. Supreme and superior courts.
 * 73. Tenure of office to be expressed in commissions; judges to hold office during good behavior, etc.; removal.
 * 73-a. Supreme court, administration
 * 74. Judges to give opinions, when.
 * 75. Justices of peace commissioned for five years.
 * 76. Divorce and probate appeals, where tried.
 * 77. Jurisdiction of justices in civil causes.
 * 78. Judges and sheriffs, when disqualified by age.
 * 79. Judges and justices not to act as counsel.
 * 80. Jurisdiction and term of probate courts.
 * 81. Judges and registers of probate not to act as counsel.

Clerks of Courts

 * 82. Clerks of courts, by whom appointed.

Encouragement of Literature, Trade, Etc.

 * 83. Encouragement of literature, etc.; control of corporations, monopolies, etc.

Oaths and Subscrptions Exclusion From Offices, Etc.

 * 84. Oath of civil officers.
 * 85. Before whom taken.
 * 86. Form of commissions.
 * 87. Form of writs.
 * 88. Form of indictments, etc.
 * 89. Suicides and deodands.
 * 90. Existing laws continued if not repugnant.
 * 91. Habeas corpus.
 * 92. Enacting style of statutes.
 * 93. Governor and judges prohibited from holding other offices.
 * 94. Incompatibility of offices; only two offices of profit to be holden at same time.
 * 95. Incompatibility of certain offices.
 * 96. Bribery and corruption disqualify for office.
 * 97. [Repealed, 1950.]
 * 98. Constitution, when to take effect.
 * 99. [Repealed, 1980.]
 * 100. Alternate methods of Proposing amendments.
 * 101. Enrollment of constitution.