Constitution of the State of South Carolina

CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 18

Where this source is used

• Article VIII §7 made electors eligible for elective county offices subject to the constitution's stated limits.

  • supports · Article VIII §7, printed p. 37

• Article I §33 directed election laws to prohibit undue influence by power, bribery, tumult, and improper conduct under adequate penalties.

  • supports · Article I §33, printed p. 9

• Article VIII §2 made male United States citizens aged twenty-one or older eligible as electors without race, color, or former condition of servitude as a bar.

  • supports · Article VIII §2, printed p. 36

• Article VIII §2 treated people residing in South Carolina when the constitution was adopted differently from later residents, who had to satisfy one year of state residence and sixty days in the county before voting.

  • supports · Article VIII §2, printed p. 36

• Article VIII §12 barred disfranchisement for an offense committed while a person was enslaved.

  • supports · Article VIII §12, printed p. 37

• Article I §31 gave inhabitants who met the constitution's qualifications an equal right to elect officers and be elected to public office.

  • supports · Article I §31, printed p. 9

• Article VIII §2 withheld voting and officeholding while a person was disqualified under the United States Constitution, unless Congress removed the disability.

  • supports · Article VIII §2, printed p. 36

• Article VIII §11 created a residence exception for offices filled at the first election and first legislative session under the constitution.

  • supports · Article VIII §11, printed p. 37

• Article I §31 required elections to be free and open.

  • supports · Article I §31, printed p. 9

• Article XIV §1 generally required state officeholders to possess elector qualifications, except where the constitution provided otherwise.

  • supports · Article XIV §1, printed p. 47

• Article VIII §2 withheld voting and officeholding from people kept in an almshouse or asylum and from people the text classified with its period-specific mental-incapacity language.

  • supports · Article VIII §2, printed p. 36

• The consulted compilation includes post-1877 amendments, so those later provisions cannot be treated as rules of the 1868–1877 Case without an independently dated original text.

  • qualifies · later amendments at printed pp. 52–55: January 22, 1878 (pp. 52–53); December 21, 1882 (pp. 54–55); December 12, 1884 (p. 55)

• Article I §32 prohibited a property qualification for election to or holding office.

  • supports · Article I §32, printed p. 9

• Article VIII §2 withheld voting and officeholding while a person was confined in a public prison.

  • supports · Article VIII §2, printed p. 36

• Article XIV §6 excluded a person who denied the existence of a Supreme Being from office.

  • supports · Article XIV §6, printed p. 48

• Article II §6 assigned at least one House member to a county even when its population share would not otherwise produce one.

  • supports · Article II §6, printed p. 12

• Article II §4 set a 124-member House and apportioned its members among counties according to inhabitants.

  • supports · Article II §4, printed pp. 11–12

• The 11 April boundary dates transfer of the executive office; it does not establish when constitutional rules ceased to exist or when Black political activity ended.

  • qualifies · post-1877 amendment material in the compilation