Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 45: APPORTIONMENT (CONST., ART. 8, AMENDED) .

Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete constitutional appendix of the Secretary of State’s 2025 Election Laws and Constitution compilation: its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context. Later amendments have not been independently verified.

Amendment 45

AMEND. 45. APPORTIONMENT (CONST., ART. 8, AMENDED) .
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment amended Ark.
Const., Art. 8, as amended by Const. Amend. 23, and is
incorporated in that article. The amendment was proposed
by initiative petition filed in the office of the Secretary of
State on July 5, 1956. It was adopted at the general
election on Nov. 6, 1956, by a vote of 197,602 for and
143,100 against.
The amendment to Ark. Const., Art. 8, § 3, was held
unconstitutional in Yancey v. Faubus, 238 F. Supp. 290
(E.D. Ark. 1965). However, it was held in Faubus v. Kinney,
239 Ark. 443, 389 S.W.2d 887 (1965), that the remainder of
the amendment was not affected. See notes to Ark. Const.,
Art. 8.
Effective Dates.
Ark. Const. Amend. 45, § 2, provided, in part: “… this
Amendment shall take effect and be in operation immedi-
ately upon its approval and adoption by the people of the
State of Arkansas, being self-executing and requiring no
enabling act.”