SEC. 10. Majority required to elect. ARTICLE IX.--_Qualifications for Office._ SECTION 1. Qualified electors only eligible. SEC. 2. Conviction of bribery a disqualification. SEC. 3. Oath of general officers. SEC. 4. Officers, how engaged. SEC. 5. How oath to be administered to governor, &c. SEC. 6. Holding office under United States, or other governments, a disqualification for certain offices,--except, &c. ARTICLE X.--_Judiciary._ SECTION 1. One supreme court--Inferior courts how established. SEC. 2. Jurisdiction of courts--Chancery powers. SEC. 3. Judges of supreme court to instruct jury--To give opinions, &c. SEC. 4. Of election and tenure of office of judges of supreme court. SEC. 5. Vacancies, how filled. SEC. 6. Compensation of judges. SEC. 7. Justices of the peace and wardens, how elected--Their jurisdiction. ARTICLE XI.--_Impeachments._ SECTION 1. Impeachments, how ordered. SEC. 2. Impeachments, how tried. SEC. 3. What officers liable to impeachment--Effect of conviction. ARTICLE XII.--_Education._ SECTION 1. Duty of General Assembly to promote schools, &c. SEC. 2. The permanent school fund. SEC. 3. Donations for support of schools. SEC. 4. Powers of General Assembly under this article. ARTICLE XIII.--_Amendments._ SECTION 1. Amendments, how proposed,--how voted upon,--how adopted. ARTICLE XIV.--_Adoption of the Constitution._ SECTION 1. Constitution, when to go into operation--Its effect on existing laws, charters, &c. SEC. 2. Former debts, &c., adopted. SEC. 3. Jurisdiction of supreme court. SEC. 4. Exemptions of New Shoreham and Jamestown from military duty, continued. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE I. Lists of voters for general officers no longer required to be kept, &c. ARTICLE II. The pardoning power, how exercised. ARTICLE III. Sessions of the General Assembly. ARTICLE IV. Electors absent from the state in the military service of the United States, allowed to vote. * * * * * We, the people of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and to transmit the same, unimpaired, to succeeding generations, do ordain and establish this Constitution of Government. ARTICLE I. DECLARATION OF CERTAIN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND PRINCIPLES. In order effectually to secure the religious and political freedom established by our venerated ancestors, and to preserve the same for our posterity, we do declare that the essential and unquestionable rights and principles hereinafter mentioned, shall be established, maintained and preserved, and shall be of paramount obligation in all legislative, judicial and executive proceedings.