Proposed
Amendments
to Iowa Constitution
1
SHALL THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION BE ADOPTED?
Summary: Amends the section on rights of persons to include women.
Section 1 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Iowa is
amended to read as follows [new language is underlined]:
RIGHTS OF PERSONS. SECTION 1. All men and women
are, by nature, free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights - among which are
those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting
property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.
2
SHALL THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION BE ADOPTED?
Summary: Removes one hundred dollar fine limit for minor offenses
which may be tried without a jury.
Section 11, unnumbered paragraph 1, Article I of the Constitution of
the State of Iowa is amended to read as follows [new language is underlined, deleted
language is crossed out]:
All offences offenses
less than felony and in which the punishment does not exceed
a fine of one hundred dollars, or maximum permissible imprisonment for does not exceed thirty days, shall be tried summarily before a justice of the peace, or other an officer
authorized by law, on information under oath, without indictment, or the intervention of a
grand jury, saving to the defendant the right of appeal; and no person shall be held to
answer for any higher criminal offence offense,
unless on presentment or indictment by a grand jury, except in cases arising in the army,
or navy, or in the militia, when in actual service, in time of war or public danger.
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