Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 8: QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS (CONST., ART. 3, § 1,

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its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context.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 8

AMEND. 8. QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS (CONST., ART. 3, § 1,
AMENDED) .
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment amended Ark.
Const., Art. 3, § 1, and is incorporated therein. The amend-
ment was proposed in the 1919 session (see Acts 1919, p.
489) and voted upon at the general election of 1920, with
the following results: for, 87,237; against, 49,751. It was
declared to be in force by the Attorney General. See the
decisions in Brickhouse v. Hill, 167 Ark. 513, 268 S.W. 865
(1925), and Combs v. Gray, 170 Ark. 956, 281 S.W. 918
(1926).
The poll tax requirement of this amendment was re-
pealed by Ark. Const. Amend. 51, § 17.