Sec. 7. No person, who shall hold any office or place of trust or profit under the United States, or any department thereof, or under this State, or under any other State or government, shall hold or exercise any other office or place of trust or profit under the authority of this State, or be eligible to a seat in either House of the General Assembly: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall extend to officers in the militia, justices of the peace, commissioners of public charities, or commissioners for special purposes.
Intermarriage of whites and negroes prohibited.
Sec. 8. All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent to the third generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited.
INDEX TO STATE CONSTITUTION
| Art. | Sec. | |
| Abuses in assessments and contracting debts by municipal corporations, general assembly to prevent; | [8] | 4 |
| Actions at law and equity suits, no distinction; | [4] | 1 |
| Pending when constitution took effect; | [4] | 20 |
| Acts of general assembly, style of; | [2] | 21 |
| Levying taxes, must state object; | [5] | 7 |
| Agriculture, department of; | [3] | 17 |
| In connection with university; | [9] | 14 |
| Alimony, general assembly does not secure; | [2] | 10 |
| Allegiance to U. S. Government; | [1] | 5 |
| Amendments; | [13] | |
| Do not vacate existing offices; | [4] | 33 |
| Answer to criminal charge; | [1] | 12 |
| Apportionment of senators and representatives; | [2] | 4-5-6 |
| Arms, right to bear; | [1] | 24 |
| Article seven, general assembly may modify or repeal certain sections; | [7] | 14 |
| Assemblage, right of; | [1] | 25 |
| Attorney-general advises executive; | [3] | 14 |
| Duties of; | [3] | 13 |
| Auditor, duties of; | [3] | 13 |
| Bail, excessive; | [1] | 14 |
| Ballot, elections to be by; | [6] | 3 |
| Bills of general assembly, read three times; | [2] | 23 |
| Blind provided for; | [11] | 10 |
| Board of charities; | [11] | 7 |
| Boundaries of state; | [1] | 34 |
| Capitation tax, application of proceeds from; | [5] | 2 |
| Exempts; | [5] | 1 |
| Capital punishment; | [11] | 2 |
| Charities, public; | [11] | |
| Deaf-mutes and the blind; | [11] | 10 |
| Idiots and inebriates; | [11] | 9 |
| Provision for orphans and the poor; | [11] | 7 |
| Self-supporting, as far as possible; | [11] | 14 |
| Cities organized by legislation; | [8] | 4 |
| Citizenship, restoration to; | [2] | 11 |
| Civil and criminal actions; | [4] | 1 |
| Claims against the state; | [4] | 9 |
| Clerk of superior court, election of; | [4] | 10 |
| Removal for inability; | [4] | 32 |
| Clerk of Supreme court; | [4] | 15 |
| Terms of office of; | [4] | 17 |
| Removal of; | [4] | 32 |
| Commutations; | [3] | 6 |
| Compulsory education, general assembly may provide; | [9] | 15 |
| Concealed weapons, carrying not justified; | [1] | 24 |
| Constitution, how changed; | [13] | 2 |
| Controversies at law about property; | [1] | 19 |
| Convention, how called; | [13] | |
| Convict labor; | [11] | 1 |
| Coroner and sheriff; | [4] | 24 |
| Corporations, municipal; | [7] | |
| Charters remain in force till legally changed; | [7] | 12 |
| Power of general assembly over; | [7] | 12 |
| Corporations other than municipal; | [8] | |
| Debts of, how secured; | [8] | 2 |
| Definition of; | [8] | 3 |
| Under general laws; | [8] | 1 |
| Correction, houses of; | [11] | 4 |
| Council of state; | [3] | 14 |
| Counsel allowed defendant; | [1] | 11 |
| County commissioners, election and duty of; | [7] | 1-2 |
| Counties, commissioners divide, into districts; | [7] | 3 |
| Districts have corporate powers as townships; | [7] | 4 |
| Majority of voters necessary to levy taxes, etc.; | [7] | 7 |
| Money, how drawn from its treasury; | [7] | 8 |
| Officers enter on duty, when; | [7] | 10 |
| Of townships; | [7] | 5 |
| School districts; | [9] | 3 |
| Fund; | [9] | 5 |
| Taxes to be ad valorem; | [7] | 9 |
| Township trustees assess property; | [7] | 6 |
| County treasurer; | [7] | 1 |
| Courts to be open; | [1] | 35 |
| Kinds of; | [4] | 2 |
| Criminal charges, answer to; | [1] | 12 |
| Criminal and civil actions; | [4] | 1 |
| Courts for cities and towns; | [4] | 14 |
| Prosecutions; | [1] | 11 |
| Deaf-mutes provided for; | [11] | 10 |
| Death punishment; | [11] | 2 |
| Debt does not affect homestead; | [10] | 3 |
| County, city or town cannot contract, except by majority of qualified voters; | [7] | 7 |
| Imprisonment for; | [1] | 16 |
| In aid of rebellion, void; | [7] | 13 |
| Debt, restrictions upon increase of public, etc.; | [5] | 4 |
| What bonds declared invalid; | [1] | 6 |
| Declaration of rights; | [1] | |
| Department of agriculture; | [3] | 17 |
| Divorce, general assembly does not grant; | [2] | 17 |
| Disqualification for office; | [{ 6] | 5 |
| [{14] | 7 | |
| Dueling disqualifies; | [14] | 2 |
| Education, board of; | [9] | 8 |
| Officers; | [9] | 9 |
| Expenses; | [9] | 13 |
| County school fund; | [9] | 5 |
| Encouraged; | [{ 9] | 1 |
| [{ 1] | 27 | |
| First session of; | [9] | 11 |
| Power of; | [9] | 10 |
| Property devoted to; | [9] | 4-5 |
| Quorum; | [9] | 12 |
| Election of officers by general assembly, viva voce; | [2] | 9 |
| Elections, by people and general assembly; | [6] | 3 |
| Contested, returns of; | [3] | 3 |
| Free; | [1] | 10 |
| Frequent; | [1] | 28 |
| Electors, oath of office of; | [6] | 4 |
| Qualifications of; | [6] | 1 |
| Registration of; | [6] | 2 |
| Eligibility to office; | [6] | |
| Emoluments, exclusive, none; | [1] | 7 |
| Hereditary; | [1] | 30 |
| Entails to be regulated; | [2] | 15 |
| Enumeration of rights, not to impair others retained by people; | [1] | 37 |
| Equity suits and actions at law, distinction abolished; | [4] | 1 |
| Pending when constitution took effect; | [4] | 20 |
| Evidence against himself, criminal not compelled to give; | [1] | 11 |
| Executive, attorney-general advises; | [3] | 14 |
| Department of; | [3] | |
| Distinct; | [1] | 8 |
| Officers; | [3] | 1 |
| Compensation; | [3] | 15 |
| Duties; | [3] | 13 |
| Reports of; | [3] | 7 |
| vTerms of office of; | [3] | 1 |
| Seal of state; | [3] | 16 |
| Vacancy in, how filled; | [3] | 13 |
| Exemption; | [10] | 1 |
| By reason of military duty, etc.; | [12] | 4 |
| Property of feme covert not liable for husband's debts; | [10] | 6 |
| Ex post facto laws; | [1] | 32 |
| Extra session of general assembly; | [3] | 9 |
| Feigned issues abolished; | [4] | 1 |
| Feme sole, property of, not liable for husband's debts; | [10] | 6 |
| Fines, excessive; | [1] | 14 |
| Freedom of the press; | [1] | 20 |
| Fundamental principles, frequent recurrence to; | [1] | 29 |
| General Assembly, acts, style of; | [2] | 21 |
| Article seven may be modified or repealed by; | [7] | 14 |
| Bills and resolutions read three times; | [2] | 23 |
| Compulsory education may be enforced by; | [9] | 15 |
| Election by; | [6] | 3 |
| Entails regulated by; | [2] | 15 |
| Extra sessions; | [{ 2] | 28 |
| [{ 3] | 9 | |
| Journals kept; | [2] | 16 |
| Protests entered on; | [2] | 17 |
| Members of; | [2] | 24 |
| Assemble when; | [2] | 2 |
| Election for, when held; | [2] | 27 |
| Office a disqualification; | [14] | 7 |
| Terms commence with election; | [2] | 25 |
| Vacancies, how filled; | [2] | 13 |
| Municipal corporations controlled by; | [7] | 14 |
| Names, personal not changed by; | [2] | 11 |
| Officers of, election, viva voce; | [2] | 9 |
| Pay of; | [2] | 28 |
| President of senate; | [2] | 19 |
| Speaker of house; | [2] | 18 |
| Powers of; | [2] | 22 |
| In relation to divorce and alimony; | [2] | 10 |
| Representation apportioned by; | [2] | 4-5 |
| Revenue; | [2] | 14 |
| Schools provided by; | [9] | 2 |
| University to be maintained by; | [9] | 6-7 |
| Yeas and nays; | [2] | 14-26 |
| Government, allegiance to U. S.; | [1] | 5 |
| Internal, of state; | [1] | 3 |
| Origin of; | [1] | 2 |
| Seat of, remains in Raleigh; | [14] | 6 |
| Governor, commands militia; | [3] | 8 |
| Commutations, pardons, reprieves; | [3] | 6 |
| Governor, compensation | [3] | 15 |
| Duties of | [3] | 12 |
| Extra sessions called by | [3] | 9 |
| Impeachment of | [3] | 12 |
| Justices of peace appointed by, when | [7] | 11 |
| Lieutenant, qualification of | [3] | 2 |
| Oath of office | [3] | 4 |
| Officers appointed by | [{ 3] | 10 |
| [{14] | 5 | |
| Qualification of | [3] | 2 |
| Residence of | [3] | 5 |
| Vacancy in office of | [3] | 12 |
| Habeas corpus | [1] | 21 |
| Hereditary emoluments | [1] | 30 |
| Homestead and exemption | [10] | 2 |
| Benefit of widow in | [10] | 5 |
| Exempted from debt | [10] | 3 |
| Laborer's lien attaches | [10] | 4 |
| Privy examination of wife to dispose of | [10] | 8 |
| House of correction | [11] | 4 |
| Orphans | [11] | 8 |
| Refuge | [11] | 5 |
| House of Representatives, representatives, apportionment | [2] | 5 |
| Officers of | [2] | 18 |
| Term begins when | [2] | 25 |
| Qualification for | [2] | 8 |
| Ratio of | [2] | 6 |
| Husband can insure life for benefit of family | [10] | 7 |
| Idiots provided for | [11] | 9 |
| Immigration, department of | [3] | 17 |
| Impeachment | [4] | 4 |
| Court of | [4] | 3 |
| Of governor | [3] | 12 |
| Imprisonment for debt | [1] | 16 |
| Except by law, wrong | [1] | 17 |
| Indictments for crimes committed before constitution took effect | [14] | 1 |
| Inebriates | [11] | 9 |
| Inferior courts | [4] | 12 |
| Officers of | [4] | 30 |
| Insane provided for | [11] | 10 |
| Institutions, charitable | [11] | |
| Penal | [11] | |
| Public, annual reports from | [3] | 7 |
| Self-supporting far as possible | [11] | 11 |
| Sexes to be separated | [11] | 6 |
| Instruction, superintendent of public | [3] | 13 |
| Intermarriage of whites and negroes prohibited | [14] | 8 |
| Internal government of state | [1] | 3 |
| Issues of fact, by whom tried and how waived | [4] | 13 |
| Judges, election, terms of, etc. | [4] | 21 |
| Fees, salaries, emoluments | [4] | 18 |
| Removal of, for inability | [4] | 31 |
| Residence of | [4] | 11 |
| Judicial Department | [4] | |
| Districts for superior courts | [4] | 10 |
| General assembly not to deprive of jurisdiction | [4] | 12 |
| Powers, division of | [4] | 2 |
| Term of first officers under constitution | [4] | 26 |
| Vacancies | [4] | 25 |
| Judicial remedy allowed all | [1] | 35 |
| Judiciary distinct; | [1] | 8 |
| Jurisdiction, courts inferior to supreme; | [4] | 12 |
| Justices of the peace; | [4] | 27 |
| Supreme court; | [4] | 8 |
| Jury, right of; | [1] | 13 |
| Sacred and inviolable; | [1] | 19 |
| Trial by, waived; | [4] | 13 |
| Justices of the peace, governor appoints when; | [7] | 11 |
| Jurisdiction of; | [4] | 27 |
| Vacancies in office; | [4] | 28 |
| Laborers' and mechanics' lien; | [14] | 4 |
| Attaches homestead; | [10] | 4 |
| Law of the land, no person imprisoned, or deprived of life, etc., but by; | [1] | 17 |
| Laws, ex post facto and retrospective; | [1] | 32 |
| Private, thirty days' notice before passage; | [2] | 12 |
| What in force; | [4] | 19 |
| Legislative, distinct; | [1] | 8 |
| Two branches of; | [2] | 1 |
| Legislature provides for organizing towns, etc.; | [8] | 4 |
| Trials other than jury; | [1] | 13 |
| Legitimation, general assembly can pass general laws for; | [2] | 11 |
| Liberty, deprivation of, except by law; | [1] | 17 |
| Religious; | [1] | 26 |
| Restraint of, remedied; | [1] | 18 |
| Warrants without evidence, dangerous to; | [1] | 15 |
| Lien of laborers and mechanics; | [14] | 4 |
| Lieutenant-governor, president of senate, duties of; | [3] | 11 |
| When governor; | [3] | 12 |
| Literary fund, board of education to succeed to rights of; | [9] | 10 |
| Marriages between whites and negroes forbidden; | [14] | 8 |
| Married woman, husband can insure life for benefit of; | [10] | 7 |
| Privy examination of, to dispose of homestead; | [10] | 8 |
| Property of, not liable for husband's debts; | [10] | 6 |
| Mechanics' lien; | [14] | 4 |
| Men, equality, rights of; | [1] | 1 |
| Militia; | [{1] | 24 |
| [{12] | ||
| Exemptions from duty; | [12] | 4 |
| Governor commands; | [{ 3] | 8 |
| [{12] | 2 | |
| Organization of; | [12] | 2 |
| Who liable to bear arms; | [12] | 1 |
| Money, how drawn from state treasury; | [4] | 1 |
| County or township treasury; | [7] | 8 |
| Monopolies are injurious; | [1] | 31 |
| Municipal corporations; | [7] | |
| Cannot contract debt except by majority of qualified voters; | [7] | 7 |
| Charters remain in force till changed; | [7] | 12 |
| General assembly to provide for organization of, taxation, etc., by; | [8] | 4 |
| Power of general assembly over; | [7] | 14 |
| Names, personal, how changed | [2] | 11 |
| Normal school, to be maintained by general assembly at university; | [9] | 14 |
| Oath of governor; | [3] | 4 |
| Oath of members of general assembly; | [2] | 24 |
| Oath of office; | [6] | 4 |
| Office, cannot hold two; | [14] | 7 |
| Disqualification; | [6] | 5 |
| Dueling disqualifies for; | [14] | 2 |
| Eligibility to; | [6] | |
| Qualification, property, none; | [1] | 22 |
| Officers, county; | [{ 7] | 1 |
| [{ 7] | 10 | |
| First elected; | [4] | 26 |
| What, appointed by governor; | [{ 3] | 10 |
| [{14] | 5 | |
| Orphans, houses for; | [11] | 8 |
| Provision for; | [11] | 7 |
| Pardons; | [3] | 6 |
| Peace, soldiers quartered in time of; | [1] | 36 |
| Penitentiary; | [11] | 3 |
| Convict labor; | [11] | 1 |
| Self-supporting as far as possible; | [11] | 11 |
| Sexes separated; | [11] | 6 |
| People, right of, to assemble together; | [1] | 25 |
| Perpetuities, injurious; | [1] | 31 |
| General assembly shall prevent; | [2] | 15 |
| Political power and government; | [1] | 2 |
| Societies in secret dangerous; | [1] | 25 |
| Poor, provision for; | [11] | 7 |
| Power of general assembly; | [2] | 22 |
| To suspend laws injurious; | [1] | 9 |
| Powers, executive, judicial and legislative, distinct; | [1] | 8 |
| Judicial, division of; | [4] | 2 |
| Press, freedom and abuse of; | [1] | 20 |
| Principles, recurrence to fundamental; | [1] | 29 |
| Prisoners, health and comfort secured; | [11] | 6 |
| Private laws; | [2] | 11-12 |
| Privileges, exclusive, none; | [1] | 7 |
| Property, controversies at law about; | [1] | 19 |
| Deprivation of, except by law, wrong; | [1] | 17 |
| Devoted to education; | [9] | 4 |
| Exemptions from taxation; | [5] | 5 |
| Feme sole not liable for husband's debts; | [10] | 6 |
| Qualification, none; | [1] | 22 |
| Prosecution, criminal; | [1] | 11 |
| Protest, by whom and when made; | [2] | 17 |
| Public debt, increase of, restricted, etc.; | [5] | 4 |
| What bonds declared invalid; | [1] | 6 |
| Public money, how drawn; | [14] | 3 |
| Public schools, general assembly to provide for; | [9] | 2 |
| Punishments, penal institutions and public charities; | [11] | |
| Cruel or unusual; | [{ 1] | 14 |
| [{14] | 1 | |
| Qualification and election of members of general assembly, each house judge of; | [2] | 22 |
| Rebellion, debt in aid of, not to be paid; | [7] | 13 |
| Recurrence to fundamental principles; | [1] | 29 |
| Refuge, houses of; | [11] | 5 |
| Register of deeds; | [7] | 1 |
| Registration of electors; | [6] | 2 |
| Religious liberty; | [1] | 26 |
| Scruples against bearing arms; | [12] | 1 |
| Removal of judges; | [4] | 31 |
| Of clerks; | [4] | 32 |
| Representation and taxation; | [1] | 23 |
| Reprieves; | [3] | 6 |
| Retrospective laws; | [1] | 32 |
| Revenue; | [{ 2] | 14 |
| [{ 5] | ||
| Right of assemblage; | [1] | 25 |
| Jury; | [1] | 13 |
| Right of secession, none; | [1] | 4 |
| To bear arms; | [1] | 24 |
| To suspend laws, injurious; | [1] | 9 |
| Rights, declaration of; | [1] | |
| Of men; | [{ 1] | 1 |
| [{ 1] | 37 | |
| Salaries and fees, general assembly to regulate; | [4] | 18 |
| Schools, attendance of children; | [9] | 15 |
| County, divided into districts; | [9] | 3 |
| Fund; | [9] | 5 |
| Provided by legislation; | [9] | 2 |
| Races separate; | [9] | 2 |
| Seal of state; | [3] | 16 |
| Search warrants without evidence, wrong; | [1] | 15 |
| Seat of government at Raleigh; | [14] | 6 |
| Secession, no right of; | [1] | 4 |
| Secretary of state, duties of; | [3] | 13 |
| Senate, presiding officer; | [2] | 19 |
| Pro tem. speaker, when elected; | [2] | 20 |
| Senators, number of; | [2] | 3 |
| Other senatorial officers; | [2] | 20 |
| President of; | [2] | 19 |
| Qualifications; for | [2] | 7 |
| Regulating senatorial districts; | [2] | 4 |
| Sexes separated in confinement; | [11] | 6 |
| Sheriff and coroner; | [4] | 24 |
| Slavery prohibited; | [1] | 33 |
| Societies, secret political, dangerous; | [1] | 25 |
| Soldiers, how quartered; | [1] | 36 |
| Solicitor, how elected; | [4] | 23 |
| Special courts; | [4] | 14 |
| State boundaries; | [1] | 34 |
| Claims against; | [4] | 9 |
| Internal government; | [1] | 3 |
| Statistics, department of; | [3] | 17 |
| Suffrage and eligibility to office; | [6] | |
| Superintendent of public instruction; | [3] | 13 |
| Reports of county school fund to be made; | [9] | 5 |
| Superior court, open at all times except for jury trials; | [4] | 22 |
| Clerk, his election; | [4] | 16 |
| Districts; | [4] | 10 |
| Judges, election and term; | [4] | 21 |
| Residence; | [4] | 11 |
| Rotation; | [4] | 11 |
| Solicitor for each district; | [4] | 23 |
| Special term; | [4] | 12 |
| Term; | [4] | 17 |
| Vacancy; | [4] | 29 |
| Transaction of business; | [4] | 22 |
| Supreme court, clerk; | [4] | 15 |
| Jurisdiction; | [4] | 8-9 |
| Justices; | [4] | 6 |
| Election and terms of; | [4] | 21 |
| Terms of; | [4] | 7 |
| Surveyor; | [7] | 1 |
| Suspending laws without consent of representatives, not to be exercised; | [1] | 9 |
| Taxation, ad valorem and uniform; | [5] | 3 |
| And revenue; | [{ 5] | |
| [{ 1] | 23 | |
| Taxation, except for necessary expenses, not levied by county, city or town without assent of majority of voters; | [7] | 7 |
| Levied by county commissioners; | [5] | 6 |
| Of county to be ad valorem; | [7] | 9 |
| Of purchases and sales retrospectively not to be passed; | [1] | 32 |
| Property, exemptions from; | [5] | 5 |
| Taxes, acts to levy, to state object; | [5] | 7 |
| Towns, etc., organized by legislation; | [8] | 4 |
| Townships, officers of; | [7] | 5 |
| Treason against state; | [4] | 5 |
| Treasurer, duties of; | [3] | 13 |
| University, agricultural department of, mechanics, mining and normal instruction connected with; | [9] | 14 |
| Benefits of; | [9] | 7 |
| Election of trustees; | [9] | 6 |
| General assembly shall maintain; | [9] | 7 |
| Maintenance of; | [9] | 6 |
| Property devoted to; | [9] | 7 |
| Vacancies in general assembly; | [2] | 13 |
| Other; | [{ 3] | 12-13 |
| [{ 4] | 25-28 | |
| {29 | ||
| Vagrants, houses of correction for; | [11] | 4 |
| Warrants without evidence injurious; | [1] | 15 |
| Whites and negroes cannot intermarry; | [14] | 8 |
| Separated in schools; | [9] | 2 |
| Widow, homestead benefits; | [10] | 5 |
| Yeas and nays, when entered; | [2] | 14-26 |