SEC. 8. There shall also, as soon as practicable, be measures devised by the State for the establishment of one or more orphan houses, where destitute orphans may be cared for, educated and taught some business or trade. [Sidenote: Inebriates and idiots.] SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the Legislature, as soon as practicable, to devise means for the education of idiots and inebriates. [Sidenote: Deaf-mutes, blind and insane.] SEC. 10. The General Assembly may provide that the indigent, deaf-mute, blind and insane of the State shall be cared for at the charge of the State. [Sidenote: Self-supporting.] SEC. 11. It shall be steadily kept in view by the Legislature and the Board of Public Charities, that all penal and charitable institutions should be made as nearly self-supporting as is consistent with the purposes of their creation. ARTICLE XII. MILITIA. [Sidenote: Who are liable to militia duty.] SECTION 1. All able-bodied male citizens of the State of North Carolina, between the ages of twenty-one and forty years, who are citizens of the United States, shall be liable to do duty in the militia: _Provided_, that all persons who may be averse to bearing arms, from religious scruples, shall be exempt therefrom. [Sidenote: Organizing, etc.] SEC. 2. The General Assembly shall provide for the organizing, arming, equipping and discipline of the militia, and for paying the same, when called into active service. [Sidenote: Governor commander in chief.] SEC. 3. The Governor shall be Commander in Chief, and shall have power to call out the militia to execute the law, suppress riots or insurrection, and to repel invasion. [Sidenote: Exemptions.] SEC. 4. The General Assembly shall have power to make such exemptions as may be deemed necessary, and enact laws that may be expedient for the government of the militia. ARTICLE XIII. AMENDMENTS. [Sidenote: Convention, how called.] SECTION 1. No convention of the people of this State shall ever be called by the General Assembly, unless by the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members of each House of the General Assembly, and except the proposition, Convention or No Convention, be first submitted to the qualified voters of the whole State, at the next general election in a manner to be prescribed by law. And should a majority of the votes cast be in favor of said convention, it shall assemble on such day as may be prescribed by the General Assembly. [Sidenote: How the Constitution may be altered.]