Article 4, Section 43. Person liable for public monies ineligible for office.
No person liable as principal for public moneys unaccounted for shall be eligible to a seat in either house of the legislature, or to any office of profit or trust, until he shall have accounted for and paid over all sums for which he may have been liable.
SOURCES: 1817 art III §
28; 1832 art III § 28; 1869 art IV § 16.