S.C. Const. art. I, § 23
The provisions of the Constitution shall be taken, deemed, and construed to be mandatory and prohibitory, and not merely directory, except where expressly made directory or permissory by its own terms.
(1970 (56) 2684; 1971 (57) 315.)
The present provisions of this section are identical to former Section 29 of Article I as it existed prior to the 1971 revision.