The Constitution of the State of Oklahoma is the governing document of the

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. Adopted in 1907, Oklahoma ratified the

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on November 16, 1907, as the 46th U.S. state. At its ratification, the Oklahoma Constitution was the lengthiest governing document of any government in the U.S. All U.S. state constitutions are subject to federal

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; any provision can be nullified if it conflicts with the U.S. Constitution. The constitution has been regularly amended, beginning with an amendment approved in the same election in which it was ratified.Goble, Danny,
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History

From 1890 onward, the land that now forms the State of Oklahoma was made up of the

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(to the west), and the

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(to the east). Indian Territory, as its name suggests, had a large Native American population; the territory itself had been reduced over time to its then size.

Sequoyah Constitutional Convention

The movement to secure statehood for Indian Territory began in 1902 with a convention in Eufaula, consisting of representatives of the "

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". The representatives met again in 1903 to organize a constitutional convention. The

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met in Muskogee, on August 21, 1905.Mize, Richard
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, Principal Chief of the

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, was selected as president of the convention. The elected delegates decided that the executive officers of the Five Civilized Tribes would also be appointed as vice-presidents:

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, Principal Chief of the

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s; William H. Murray, appointed by

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Governor Douglas H. Johnston to represent the Chickasaws; Chief

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of the

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s; Chief

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of the

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s; and

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, selected to represent the Creeks (as General Porter had been elected President). The convention drafted a constitution, drew up a plan of organization for the government, put together a map showing the counties to be established, and elected delegates to go to the

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to petition for statehood. The convention's proposals were then put to a referendum in Indian Territory, in which they were overwhelmingly endorsed. The delegation received a cool reception in

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. Eastern politicians, fearing the admission of two more Western states, and no doubt unwilling to admit an "Indian" state, put pressure on the

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, who finally ruled that the Indian and Oklahoma Territories would be granted statehood only as a combined state. The hard work of the Sequoyah State Constitutional Convention was not entirely lost, however. When representatives from Indian Territory joined the Oklahoma State Constitutional Convention in Guthrie the next year, they brought their constitutional experience with them. The Sequoyah Constitution served in large part as the basis for the constitution of the State of Oklahoma, which came into being with the merger of the two territories in 1907.

List of Prominent Delegates to the Sequoyah Convention

* William H. Murray (Constitutional Convention President, ninth

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, first

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) *

(first Governor of Oklahoma) * Robert L. Williams (third Governor of Oklahoma, first Chief Justice of Oklahoma) * Henry S. Johnston (Constitution Convention President Pro Tempore, seventh Governor of Oklahoma, first

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(Constitution Convention Vice President) * Albert H. Ellis (Constitutional Convention Second Vice President) * Charles M. McClain (Constitutional Convention Secretary) *Chas H. Filson (Secretary of Oklahoma) * James S. Buchanan (President of the

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Oklahoma Constitutional Convention

The final nail in the coffin of the proposed State of Sequoyah was an

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passed by Congress on June 6, 1906 that provided for a single state to be created from the so-called "Twin Territories." The act further specified that elections would be held in both territories on November 6, 1906 to elect delegates for a constitutional convention. Each territory was to elect 55 delegates. The Osage Nation was allowed two delegates, giving a total of 112 delegates.Adkison, Danny M. "Constitutional Convention." Accessed November 23, 2017.
/ref> The Oklahoma Constitutional Convention opened in Guthrie on November 20, 1906. William H. Murray was elected chairman of the convention. Charles N. Haskell was elected the majority floor leader by the Democrats, and Henry Asp was elected minority floor leader by the Republicans. William Jennings Bryan came to encourage the delegates to write, "the very best constitution ever written." Bryan proposed that they accomplish this by consulting previously written state constitutions. The delegates not only complied, but also consulted the proceedings of the Sequoyah Convention, and the U.S. Constitution. Having completed a draft document, they adjourned March 15, 1907. There were two additional week-long sessions called to finish the draft before it was put before the voters on September 17, 1907. Eligible voters approved their new Constitution a 71 percent yes vote. Satisfied with the proposed document, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the necessary papers November 16, 1907, and announced, "Oklahoma is now a state."

Members

Members of the Oklahoma Constitutional convention included: * L. J. Akers * R. J. Allen * J. A. Alderson * H. E. Asp * J. A. Baker * W. E. Banks * G. M. Berry * G. N. Bilby * C. W. Board * C. H. Bowers * O. H. P. Brewer Jr. * B. E. Bryant * James S. Buchanan * W. A. Cain * J. J. Carney * J. M. Carr * W. J. Caudill * J. H. Chambers * H. L. Cloud * J. H. N. Cobb * A. G. Cochran * Riley Copeland * H. P. Covey * J. J. Curl * W. T. Dalton * W. S. Dearing * William A. Durant (

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) * W. H. Edley * J. T. Edmondson * Albert H. Ellis (Vice-president) * C. C. Fisher * C. O. Frye * N. B. Gardner * J. C. Graham *

(Vice-president) * D. G. Harned * J. A. Harris * J. B. Harrison * Benjamin F. Harrison *

* A. L. Hausam * Samuel W. Hayes * W. L. Helton * W. F. Hendricks * George A. Henshaw * F. E. Herring * J. K. Hill *

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* P. B. Hopkins * R. E. Houston * W. B. Hudson * W. C. Hughes * Walter Davis Humphrey * W. T. S. Hunt * T. O. James * W. D. Jenkins * Henry S. Johnston * Cham Jones * Matthew John Kane *

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* J. F. King * W. H. Kornegay * J. H. Langley * Milas Lasater * J. S. Latimer * T. J. Leahy * B. F. Lee * C. S. Leeper * W. A. Ledbetter * W. C. Leidtke * W. N. Littlejohn * I. B. Littleton * E. O. McCance * Charles M. McClain * P. J. McClure * J. C. Majors * J. C. Mathis * J. Harvey Maxey * E. F. Messenger * J. L. Mitch * C. L. Moore * William H. Murray (President) * Flowers Nelson * E. G. Newell * J. K. Norton * Gabe E. Parker * C. H. Pittman * J. J. Quarles * S. N. Ramsey * Thad Rice * Luke Roberts * C. V. Rogers * D. S. Rose * J. M. Sandlin * J. E. Sater * J. J. Savage * E. T. Sorrels * E. J. Stowe * J. W. Swarts * J. B. Tosh * H. O. Tener * F. C. Tracy * G. M. Tucker * H. G. Turner * Carlton Weaver * E. R. Williams * Boone Williams * R. L. Williams * D. P. Willis * George W. Wood * J. I. Wood * T. C. Wyatt * A. S. Wyly * John M. Young (Secretary)

Preamble

The Oklahoma Constitution Preamble reads: : ''Invoking the guidance of Almighty God, in order to secure and perpetuate the blessing of liberty; to secure just and rightful government; to promote our mutual welfare and happiness, we, the people of the State of Oklahoma, do ordain and establish this Constitution.''

Article of the Constitution

The remainder of the constitution consists of twenty-nine articles, with the first eight pertaining to the state’s government.

Federal Relations

Article One establishes how the state of Oklahoma is to relate to the United States federal government, stating that the US Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. By this article, religious freedom is established,

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is forbidden, the debts of Oklahoma Territory are acquired by the State of Oklahoma, public school are established to be taught only in English, and that suffrage shall never be revoked due to “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Bill of Rights

Article Two enumerates the rights of all citizens of the State of Oklahoma. These include that all political power derives from the people, the inherent rights “to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the enjoyment of the gains of their own industry,” the right to peaceful assembly, a ban on the interference with suffrage, the definition of treason, the right to trial by jury, that marriage in the State of Oklahoma is defined as being between a man and a woman, and many others. The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person, or property, or in aid of the civil power, when thereunto legally summoned, shall never be prohibited; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the Legislature from regulating the carrying of weapons.

Suffrage

Article Three deals with suffrage in the State of Oklahoma. All peoples of the age of 18 are qualified electors in the state and a State Elector Board is established charged with the supervision of such elections as the Legislature shall direct. No elector in Oklahoma may vote in any election unless previously registered to do so with the state, and all elections must be “free and equal,” as no “power, civil or military, shall ever interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage,” and “electors shall be privileged from arrest during their attendance on elections and while going to and from the same” except in cases of treason against the state.

Separation of Powers

Article Four established the

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under the doctrine of

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and reads: :''The powers of the government of the State of Oklahoma shall be divided into three separate departments: The Legislative, Executive, and Judicial; and except as provided in this Constitution, the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of government shall be separate and distinct, and neither shall exercise the powers properly belonging to either of the others. ''

Legislative power

Article Five establishes the

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of government,

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, which includes the

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and the

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. The article establishes the manner of election and qualifications of members of each House, and includes a unique

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provision in Section 17A: no member can serve more than 12 years total in the legislature, whether in one chamber or in both chambers. In addition, it provides for free debate in the legislature, limits self-serving behavior by senators and representatives, outlines legislative procedure and indicates the powers of the legislative branch.

Executive power

Article Six describes the governorship (the

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): procedures for the selection of the governor, qualifications for office, the oath to be affirmed and the powers and duties of the office. It also provides for the office of

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, and specifies that the lieutenant governor succeeds to the governorship if the governor is incapacitated, dies, or resigns. Other executive offices and departments created in the article are the Secretary of State, the

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, the

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, the State Auditor and Inspector, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the

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, the Commissioner of Labor, the Department of Mines, the Board of Agriculture, and the Commissioners of the Land Office.

Judicial power

Article Seven describes the court system (the

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), which is unique in that it establishes two courts of last resort (only neighboring state

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has a similar system). The Article vests the judicial power in a

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, a Court of Criminal Appeals, a Worker's Compensation Court, a Court of Tax Review, and such intermediate, trial level and municipal courts as the Legislature, at its discretion, may establish. As written in the Constitution, the Legislature is given the enumerated power to dissolve any court in Oklahoma at any time, except the Supreme Court. All civil judgments are reviewable by the Supreme Court and all criminal judgement are reviewable by the Court of Criminal Appeals. The Article also creates the

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(charged with reviewing Justices and Judges). The Article continues to further describe how Justices and Judges are selected, and how and under what circumstances Justices and Judges are removed from office.

Impeachment

Article Eight states that all state elected offices, including Supreme Court Justices, are subject to impeachment for wilful neglect of duty, corruption in office, habitual drunkenness, incompetency, or any offense involving moral turpitude committed while in office. The

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must bring the charges against the individual with the

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. If charged with impeachment and found guilty, the official’s term is immediately suspended.

Remaining Articles

*Article Nine - Corporations *Article Ten - Taxes and Revenue in General *Article Eleven - State and School Lands *Article Twelve - Homestead and Exemptions **Article Twelve A - Homestead Exemption From Taxation *Article Thirteen - Education **Article Thirteen A - Oklahoma State System of Higher Education **Article Thirteen B - Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges *Article Fourteen - Banks and Banking *Article Fifteen - Oath of Office *Article Sixteen - Public Roads *Article Seventeen - Counties *Article Eighteen - Municipal Corporations *Article Nineteen - Insurance *Article Twenty - Manufacture and Commerce *Article Twenty-one - Public Institutions *Article Twenty-two - Alien and Corporate Ownership of Lands *Article Twenty-three - Miscellaneous *Article Twenty-four - Constitutional Amendments **The Oklahoma Constitution permits three methods of amendment: 1) amendments by the Oklahoma Legislature (requires majority vote of both houses and approval by majority of the voters at next general election; the Legislature can by 2/3 vote place the amendment on a special election), 2) constitutional convention (a call for such requires majority voter approval before the convention is held, and any amendments or new constitution requires majority voter approval, but such a call must be made at least once every 20 years), or 3) via an initiative petition. *Article Twenty-five - Social Security *Article Twenty-six - Department of Wildlife Conservation *Article Twenty-seven - Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (repealed) *Article Twenty-eight - Alcoholic Beverage Laws And Enforcement *Article Twenty-nine - Ethics Commission *Article Thirty - Official Actions of the State of Oklahoma The final section of the Oklahoma Constitution deals with laws and other ordinances in place in the Territory of Oklahoma before its admission to the Union in 1907.

Section Attestations

The Oklahoma Constitution ends with the officers and delegates to the Constitutional Convention signing the documents. It reads: : ''Done in open Convention at the City of Guthrie, in the Territory of Oklahoma, on this, the sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and the Independence of the United States of America one hundred and thirty-first. '' *John McLain Young, Secretary. * William H. Murray, President of the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma and Delegate from District No. 104. *

, Vice President *Chas. H. Filson, Secretary of Oklahoma. * Albert H. Ellis, Second Vice President and Delegate 14" District. Territory of Oklahoma, Logan County: :''I, Wm. H. Murray, President of the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is the original parchment enrollment of the Constitution and the several articles thereof adopted by the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma, to be submitted to the people of the proposed State of Oklahoma for ratification, and that all the interlineations therein contained and all the erasures and words stricken out, were made and done before the same was signed by the President, the Vice-Presidents, and the members of said Convention.'' ::''Witness my hand this the sixteenth day of July, A. D., Nineteen Hundred and Seven.'' :::''William H. Murry, President of the Constitutional Convention of the proposed State of Oklahoma'' :::''John McLain Young, Secretary''

Notes

External links

Oklahoma Constitution on the Internet

Additional resources

*Morgan, David R., Robert E. England and George G. Humphreys
''Oklahoma Politics and Policies: Governing the Sooner State''. 1991. University of Nebraska Press.
.

References

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