No property qualification, unless prescribed in this Constitution, shall be necessary for an election to or the holding of any office. No person shall be elected or appointed to office in this State for life or during good behavior, but the terms of all officers shall be for some specified period, except Notaries Public and officers in the Militia. After the adoption of this Constitution any person who shall fight a duel or send or accept a challenge for that purpose, or be an aider or abettor in fighting a duel, shall be deprived of holding any office of honor or trust in this State, and shall be otherwise punished as the law shall prescribe.

(1970 (56) 2684; 1971 (57) 315.)

Editor's Note

This section was originally Section 11 of Article I. It was transferred to its present location by the amendment ratified by 1971 Act No 276 (1971 (57) 315) which effected the revision of that article. The present provisions of the second sentence of this section are similar to the third sentence of Section 1 of Article VI. For similar provisions in Constitution of 1868, see Const 1868, Art I, Section 32.