Harvey v. Ridgeway

Richard H. Wootton, Special Justice,

dissenting. I cannot agree with the majority opinion’s conclusion that a delegate to the Constitutional Convention is not a “civil office under this State” within the meaning and prohibition expressed in Article 5, Section 10, of the Constitution of 1874. To the contrary, I believe the better reasoning is that a Constitutional Convention delegate elected pursuant to Act 42 holds a civil office under this State within the Constitutional prohibition.

The Arkansas Constitution makes no specific reference to constitutional conventions. However, even in the…