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Miss. Const. art. 5, § 129

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Constitution of Mississippi
Text as of
October 2026

What does this section say?

The lieutenant-governor shall, by virtue of his office, be president of the senate. In committee of the whole he may debate all questions, and where there is an equal division in the senate, or on a joint vote of both houses, he shall give the casting vote. SOURCES: 1817 art IV §19; 1869 art V §16.

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