Constitution of the State of Mississippi

1890

Mississippi adopted its current constitution in 1890, its fourth since statehood in 1817. The document has been amended substantially over the decades, and federal court decisions and legislation have superseded many of its original provisions. It establishes the structure of state government, enumerates individual rights, and sets the terms for local governance across Mississippi's eighty-two counties. Calls for a wholesale constitutional revision have recurred throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the document remains one of the longest state constitutions in the nation.