CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

Article 3, Section 19.  Dueling prohibited.

Human life shall not be imperiled by the practice of dueling; and any citizen of this state who shall hereafter fight a duel, or assist in the same as second, or send, accept, or knowingly carry a challenge therefor, whether such an act be done in the state, or out of it, or who shall go out of the state to fight a duel, or to assist in the same as second, or to send, accept, or carry a challenge, shall be disqualified from holding any office under this Constitution, and shall be disfranchised.

SOURCES: 1817 art VI § 2; 1832 art VII § 2; 1869 art I § 27.


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