The Mississippi Constitution is the fundamental governing document of the state of Mississippi.
Features
The Mississippi Constitution includes a Preamble and 15 articles, each of which is divided into sections. Unlike most other state constitutions, the numbering of the sections does not begin again at “1” with each article. Instead, the Mississippi Constitution ends at Section 285.
Background
The current (and fourth) Mississippi Constitution was adopted on November 1, 1890.
The current constitution has been amended at least 52 times since 1968. The results for some amendments in 1992 were unavailable, and records of amendments before 1968 have not been found or processed by Ballotpedia.
The most recent amendments to the Mississippi Constitution, of which there are two, were approved by voters in 2020.
Mississippi has a process for initiated constitutional amendments, which means constitutional amendments can go on the ballot through citizen initiatives or legislatively referred constitutional amendments. The Mississippi Constitution is one of 11 state constitutions with no mechanism or a lack of clarity in the process for calling a constitutional convention.
