Constitution of the United States

SECTIONS WHICH LIMIT THE POWER OF A MUNICIPALITY AND ITS

OFFICERS.

ARTICLE I.

OF THE LEGISLATIVE POWER.

Sec. 10. No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, cr post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.

No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all duties and imposts laid by any State on imports or exports shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.

No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.

ARTICLE IV.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

Section 1. Records and Judicial Proceedings of Sister States. -Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.

Sec. 2. Privileges and Immunities of the Citizens of Several States. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE XIV.

Section 1. Citizenship-Rights of Citizens-Due Process of Law and Equal Protection of the Laws.-All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

ARTICLE XV.

Section 1. Elective Franchise.-The rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or any State, on account of race or color, or previous condition of servitude.

Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Constitution of the State of Missouri

SECTIONS BEARING UPON THE POWERS, DUTIES AND LIMITATIONS OF KANSAS CITY AND HER OFFICERS.

ARTICLE II.

BILL OF RIGHTS.

Sec. 11. Freedom From Search and Seizure, Requisites of Warrant. That the people shall be secure in their persons, papers, homes and effects, from unreasonable searches and seizures; and no warrant to search any place, or seize any person or thing, shall issue without describing the place to be searched, or the person or thing to be seized, as nearly as may be; nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation reduced to writing.

Sec. 15. Ex Post Facto Laws, Etc., Prohibited. That no ex post facto law, nor law impairing the obligation of contracts, or retrospective in its operation, or making any irrevocable grant of special privileges or immunities, can be passed by the General Assembly.

Sec. 17. Right to Bear Arms, When.-That the right of no citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power, when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained ist intended to justify the practice of wearing concealed weapons.

Sec. 18. Officers to Attend Personally to Duties.-That no person elected or appointed to any office or employment of trust or profit under the laws of this State, or any ordinance of any municipality in this State, shall hold such office without personally devoting his time to the performance of the duties to the same belonging.

Sec. 19. Collectors, Receivers, Etc., in Default, Ineligible to Office. That no person who is now or may hereafter become a collector or receiver of public money, or assistant or deputy of such collector or receiver, shall be eligible to any office of trust or profit in the State of Missouri under the laws thereof, or of any munici

pality therein, until he shall have accounted for and paid over all the public money for which he may be accountable.

Sec. 20. Property Not to Be Taken for Private Use-Public Use a Judicial Question.—That no private property can be taken for private use, with or without compensation, unless by the consent of the owner, except for private ways of necessity, and except for drains and ditches across the lands of others for agricultural and sanitary purposes, in such manner as may be prescribed by law; and that whenever an attempt is made to take private property for a use alleged to be public, the question whether the contemplated use be really public shall be a judicial question, and as such judicially determined, without regard to any legislative assertion that the use is public.

Sec. 21. Property For Public Use-Compensation.-That private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without just compensation. Such compensation shall be ascertained by a jury or board of commissioners of not less than three freeholders. in such manner as may be prescribed by law; and until the same shall be paid to the owner, or into court for the owner, the property shall not be disturbed or the proprietary rights of the owner therein divested. The fee of land taken for railroad tracks without consent of the owner thereof shall remain in such owner, subject to the use for which it is taken.

Sec. 29. People, Right to Assemble and Petition.-That the people have the right peaceably to assemble for their common good. and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances by petition or remonstrance.

Sec. 30. Due Process of Law-Person.-That no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.

ARTICLE IV.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

Sec. 12. Members of General Assembly Cannot Hold Other Offices. No Senator or Representative shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any office under this State, or any municipality thereof; and no member of Congress

or person holding any lucrative office under the United States, or this State, or any municipality thereof (militia officers, justices of the peace and notaries public excepted), shall be eligible to either house of the General Assembly, or remain a member thereof, after having accepted any such office or seat in either house of Congress.

Sec. 47. Municipalities, Loaning Credit of.-The General Assembly shall have no power to authorize any county, city, town or township, or other political corporation or subdivision of the State now existing, or that may be hereafter established, to lend its credit, or to grant public money or thing of value in aid of or to any individual, association or corporation whatsoever, or to become a stockholder in such corporation, association or company: Provided, That this shall not be so construed as to prohibit the General Assembly from providing by law for authorizing the creation, maintenance and management of a fund for the pensioning of crippled and disabled firemen, and for the relief of the widows and minor children of deceased firemen, by such cities, villages or incorporated towns as may have an organized fire department-said fund to be taken from the municipal revenue of such cities, villages or incorporated towns.

Sec. 48. Public Officers, Agents, Etc., Extra Pay Prohibited. The General Assembly shall have no power to grant, or to authorize any county or municipal authority to grant any extra compensation, fee or allowance to a public officer, agent, servant or contractor, after service has been rendered or a contract has been entered into and performed in whole or in part, nor pay nor authorize the payment of any claim hereafter created against the State, or any county or municipality of the State, under any agreement or contract made without express authority of law; and all such unauthorized agreements or contracts shall be .null and void.

Sec. 51. Corporation Debts, Release Prohibited.-The General Assembly shall have no power to release or extinguish, or authorize the releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or obligation of any corporation or individual to this State, or to any county or other municipal corporation therein. Sec. 53. Special and Local Laws Prohibited. The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law:

Authorizing the creation, extension or impairing of liens; Regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards or school districts:

Changing the names of persons or places;

Changing the venue in civil or criminal cases;