preamble•Constitution of South Dakota — Preamble
Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete captured Legislature compilation, including repealed provisions and publisher source notes. The exact current edition has not been independently verified.
Preamble
Article
Preamble.
1. Name and Boundary.
2. Division of The Powers of Government.
3. Legislative Department.
4. Executive Department.
5. Judicial Department.
6. Bill of Rights.
7. Elections and Right of Suffrage.
8. Education and School Lands.
9. Local Government.
10. Municipal Corporations [Repealed]
11. Revenue and Finance.
12. Public Accounts and Expenditures.
13. Public Indebtedness.
14. State Institutions.
15. Militia.
16. Impeachment and Removal From office.
17. Corporations.
18. Banking and Currency.
19. Congressional and Legislative Apportionment.
20. Seat of Government.
21. Miscellaneous.
22. Compact with the United States.
23. Amendments and Revisions of the Constitution.
24. Prohibition [Repealed].
25. Minority Representation [Rejected].
26. Schedule and Ordinance.
27. State Control of Manufacture and Sale of Liquor [Repealed].
28. County Investment of Permanent School and Endowment Funds.
29. State Elevators, Warehouses, Flouring Mills, and Packing Houses.
PREAMBLE
We, the people of South Dakota, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberties, in order to form a more perfect and independent government, establish justice, insure tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and preserve to ourselves and to our posterity the blessings of liberty, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the state of South Dakota.
History: Amendment proposed by SL 1975, ch 1, rejected Nov. 2, 1976.
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