Wyoming Declaration of Rights
Article No. I.
Declaration of Rights.
Section 1. All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; for the advancement of these ends they have at all times an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper.
Sec. 2. In their inherent right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, all members of the human race are equal.
Sec. 3. Since equality in the enjoyment of natural and civil rights is made sure only through political equality, the laws of this State affecting the political rights and privileges of its citizens shall be without distinction of race, color, sex, or any circumstance or condition whatsoever other than individual incompetency, or unworthiness duly ascertained by a court of competent jurisdiction. . . .
- Title
- Wyoming Declaration of Rights
- Description
- The first article of the State of Wyoming's Constitution enumerates certain rights within the state. Wyoming Territory was the first government to grant women suffrage rights, and that right was preserved in the Declaration of Rights when organizing the state government.
- Excerpted
- Yes
- Date
- 1889-09-30
- Subject
- Women
- Temporal Coverage
- Gilded Age
- Territorial Expansion
- Jim Crow Era
- Progressive Era
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Exclusion Era
- Document Type
- Constitution
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bibliographic Citation
- U.S. Congress. Senate. Memorial of the State Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Wyoming, Praying the Admission of That Territory as a State into the Union. 51st Cong., 1st Sess., 1889. Mis. Doc. No. 23
- Digital Repository
- HathiTrust
- Title
- Wyoming Declaration of Rights
- Description
- The first article of the State of Wyoming's Constitution enumerates certain rights within the state. Wyoming Territory was the first government to grant women suffrage rights, and that right was preserved in the Declaration of Rights when organizing the state government.
- Excerpted
- Yes
- Date
- 1889-09-30
- Subject
- Women
- Temporal Coverage
- Gilded Age
- Territorial Expansion
- Jim Crow Era
- Progressive Era
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Exclusion Era
- Document Type
- Constitution
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bibliographic Citation
- U.S. Congress. Senate. Memorial of the State Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Wyoming, Praying the Admission of That Territory as a State into the Union. 51st Cong., 1st Sess., 1889. Mis. Doc. No. 23
- Digital Repository
- HathiTrust