Delaware Constitution

Adopted by Constitutional Convention June 4, 1897

Became effective June 10, 1897

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Documents of June 1897

June 10, 1897

General Assembly to hold legislative power; composition

Justices of Supreme Court and other state Judges; qualifications; residence; precedence; retiree sitting temporarily

Additional representative districts

Composition of House and Senate; terms of office; districts; election

Retired Judges and Justices; Temporary Assignment

Proceedings pending at time of 1951 amendment; books, records and papers; effect of amended article on Court of Chancery

Bingo games; organizations authorized to conduct; submission to referendum; districts; regulation; penalties

Abolition of Orphans' Court; transfer of jurisdiction and powers

Restriction of bills and resolutions to one subject; expression in title; exception

Journals; publication; entry of yeas and nays; passage of bills and resolutions

Taxation of stock owned by persons or corporations without the State

Justices of the peace; term of office

Criminal jurisdiction of interior courts and justices of the peace; regulation of jurisdiction; indictment; jury trial; appeals

Clerk of Supreme Court; term of office and compensation

Prothonotary as Clerk of Superior Court; powers and duties; entry of testatum fieri facias

Time for writ of error on confession of judgement; exceptions

Security for stay of proceedings on appeal or writ of error

Survival of action; executor or administrator as party; continuance

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