elected by the people of the respective divisions and brigades; and all persons subject to military duty shall be entitled to vote for the same only, and shall be commissioned by the governor. All other officers of the militia shall be elected in such manner as the legislature may direct, and shall be commissioned by the governor; and all militia officers now in commission, and those which may be hereafter commissioned, shall hold their commissions during their usual residence within the division, brigade, regiment, battalion, or company to which they belong, unless removed by sentence of a court-martial, or by the governor on the address of two-thirds of each branch of the general assembly.
(Ratified 1847)
Art. II. Sec. 3. So altered and amended as to read: No person shall be eligible to the office of governor who shall not have been a citizen of the United States twelve years, and an inhabitant of this State six years, and who hath not attained to the age of thirty years.
(Ratified 1849[1])
Art. III. Sec. 9. So altered and amended as to read: Divorces shall be final and conclusive when the parties shall have obtained the concurrent verdicts of two special juries, authorizing a divorce upon such legal principles as the general assembly may by law prescribe.
CONSTITUTION OF GEORGIA—1861
[A State convention, called by an act of the legislature, passed an ordinance of secession January 19, 1861, and on March 23, 1861, completed a revision of the State constitution, which was ratified by the people on the first Tuesday of the following July.]
preamble
We, the people of the State of Georgia, in order to form a permanent government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, acknowledging and invoking the guidance of Almighty God, the author of
- ↑ See Journal of the State Convention, Held in Milledgeville, in December, 1850. Milledgeville: R. M. Orme, State Printer, 1850. p. 34.
- ↑ See “Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Georgia, Held in Milledgeville in October and November, 1865, Together with the Ordinances and Resolutions adopted, Published by Order of the Convention, Milledgeville, Ga.; R. M. Orme & Son, Printers for the Convention, 1865.” pp. 207–226.
- ↑ A convention, called by Provisional Governor James Johnson, met October 25, 1865, repealed the ordinance of secession October 30, and submitted this constitution to the people November 7, 1865. It was ratified, receiving 17,699 votes.
