Constitution · Mississippi

Miss. Const. art. 6, § 154

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Constitution of Mississippi
Text as of
October 2026

What does this section say?

No person shall be eligible to the office of judge of the circuit court or of the chancery court who shall not have been a practicing lawyer for five years and who shall not have attained the age of twenty-six years, and who shall not have been five years a citizen of this state. SOURCES: 1832 art IV §12; 1869 art VI §12.

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