Article I, Montana Constitution

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Article I of the Montana Constitution is entitled Compact with the United States and consists of a single section.

Article I

Text of Article 1: Compact with the United States All provisions of the enabling act of Congress (approved February 22, 1889, 25 Stat. 676), as amended and of Ordinance No. 1, appended to the Constitution of the state of Montana and approved February 22, 1889, including the agreement and declaration that all lands owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the congress of the United States, continue in full force and effect until revoked by the consent of the United States and the people of Montana.

See also

• State constitution
• Constitutional article
• Constitutional amendment
• Constitutional revision
• Constitutional convention
• Amendments
  • Initiated constitutional amendment
  • Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
  • Publication requirements for proposed state constitutional amendments
  • Rules about constitutional conventions in state constitutions
  • State constitutional articles governing state legislatures

External links

Suggest a link

• Montana Judicial Branch, "Montana Constitution"
• Montana.gov, "Chapter 21: A People's Constitution (1972)"
• Montana State Legislature, "Highlights from Legislative History"
• Montana Historical Society, "The Blessings of Liberty: Montana's Constitutions"
• Montana Policy Institute, "Home"
• Beartooth NBC, "Big Sky Chronicles: Montana Constitution," (dead link)
• Montana PBS, "For This and Future Generations..."

Additional reading

• Elison, Larry and Fritz Snyder. (2011). The Montana State Constitution, New York, New York: Oxford University Press
• University of Montana's William J. Jameson Law Library, "Documentary History of the Ratification of the Montana Constitution"