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ARTICLE VI. The Right of Suffrage and Qualifications of Officers, Civil
Officers, and Impeachments, and Removals from Office. Section 1. Every free white male person of the age of twenty-one years
and upwards, and who shall be, at the time of offering to vote, a citizen of the
United States, and who shall have resided and had his habitation, domicil, home,
and place of permanent abode in Florida, for one year next preceding the
election at which he shall offer to vote, and who shall, at such time, and for
six months immediately preceding said time, have had his habitation, domicil,
and place of permanent abode in the county in which he may offer to vote, shall
be deemed a qualified elector at all elections under the Constitution, and none
others; except in elections by general ticket in the State or District
prescribed by law, in which cases the elector must have been a resident of the
State one year next preceding the election, and six months within the elective
district in which he offers to vote: Provided, That no officer, soldier,
seaman or marine, in the regular army or navy of the United States, or any other
person in the employ or pay of the United States, unless he be a qualified
elector of the State previous to his appointment or enlistment as such officer,
soldier, seaman or marine, in the regular army or navy of the United States, or
of the revenue service, Section 2. The General Assembly shall have power to exclude from every
office of honor, trust, or profit within the State, and from the right of
suffrage, all persons convicted of bribery, perjury or other infamous crime.
Section 3. No person shall be capable of holding or being elected to
any post of honor, profit, trust or emolument, civil or military, legislative,
executive or judicial, under the government of this State, who shall hereafter
fight a duel, or send or accept a challenge to fight a duel, the probable issue
of which may be the death of the challenger or challenged, or who shall be a
second to either party, or who shall, in any manner, aid or assist in such duel,
or shall be knowingly the bearer of such challenge or acceptance, whether the
same occur or be committed in or out of the State; but the legal disability
shall not accrue until after trial and conviction, according to due form of law.
Section 4. No person who may hereafter be a collector or holder of
public monies shall have a seat in either House of the General Assembly, or be
eligible to any office of trust or profit under this State, until he shall have
accounted for and paid into the Treasury all sums for which he may be
accountable. Section 5. No Governor, member of Congress, or of the General Assembly
of this State, shall receive a fee, be engaged as counsel, agent Section 6. No Senator or Representative shall, during the term for
which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit
under this State, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which
shall have been increased, during such term, except such offices as may be
filled by elections by the people. Section 7. Members of the General Assembly, and all officers, civil or
military, before they enter upon the execution of their respective offices,
shall take the following oath or affirmation: "I do swear (or affirm) that I am
duly qualified, according to the Constitution of this State, to exercise the
office to which I have been elected (or appointed,) and will, to the best of my
abilities, discharge the duties thereof, and preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of this State and of the United States of America." Section 8. Every person shall be disqualified from serving as
Governor, Senator, Representative, or from holding any other office of honor or
profit in this State, for the term for which he shall have been elected, who
shall have been convicted of having given or offered any bribe to procure his
election. Section 9. Laws shall be made by the General Assembly to exclude from
office, and from suffrage, those who shall have been, or Section 10. All civil officers of the State at large shall reside
within the State, and all district or county officers within their respective
districts or counties, and shall keep their respective offices at such places
therein as may be required by law. Section 11. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to regulate
by law in what cases and what deduction from the salaries of public officers
shall be made, for any neglect of duty in their official capacity. Section 12. Returns of elections for members of Congress and the
General Assembly shall be made to the Secretary of State, in manner to be
prescribed by law. Section 13. In all elections by the General Assembly the vote shall be
viva voce, and in all elections by the people the vote shall be by ballot.
Section 14. No member of Congress or person holding or exercising any
office of profit under the United States, or under any foreign power, shall be
eligible as a member of the General Assembly of this State, or hold or exercise
any office of profit under the State; and Section 15. The General Assembly shall, by law, provide for the
appointment or election, and removal from office, of all officers, civil and
military, in this state, not provided for in this Constitution. Section 16. The power of impeachment shall be vested in the House of
Representatives. Section 17. All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate; when
sitting for that purpose the Senators shall be upon oath or affirmation; and no
person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members
present. Section 18. The Governor and all civil officers shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office, but judgment in such cases shall not extend further than to removal from office and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under this State; but the parties nevertheless shall be liable to indictment, trial and punishment according to law.
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