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The Constitution of the State of South Carolina is the governing document of the U.S. state of South Carolina. It describes the structure and function of the state's government. The current constitution took effect on December 4, 1895. South Carolina has had six other constitutions, which were adopted in 1669, 1776, 1778, 1790, 1865 and 1868.
Land ownership was seen as an important aspect of freedom for African-Americans in South Carolina. Therefore, the South Carolina Land Commission was created during the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention. [1] The 1868 convention was unique because over half of the 124 delegates were African-American.
Prior to the civil rights movement in South Carolina, African Americans in the state had very few political rights. South Carolina briefly had a majority-black government during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, but with the 1876 inauguration of Governor Wade Hampton III, a Democrat who supported the disenfranchisement of blacks, African Americans in South Carolina struggled to ...
Gannett. Savannah Moss, Greenville News. August 1, 2024 at 2:12 AM. League of Women Voters of South Carolina and the state’s chapter of the ACLU filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging South Carolina ...
August 14, 2024 at 5:00 AM. Joshua Boucher/jboucher@thestate.com. A subtle change to the South Carolina Constitution will be on the November ballot. Whether it actually changes anything is up for ...
South Carolina is a state in the United States of America and was the eighth admitted to the Union. The state of South Carolina was preceded by the Crown Colony of South Carolina, a constitutional monarchy which was overthrown during the American Revolution. Presently, South Carolina's government is formed as a representative democracy.
August 14, 2024 at 5:00 AM. Joshua Boucher/jboucher@thestate.com. A subtle change to the South Carolina Constitution will be on the November ballot. Whether it actually changes anything is up for ...
Title 63- South Carolina Children's Code Chapter 19 Articles 1-23 established the*South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and outlined the means and methods by which minors in the state can be prosecuted and subsequently incarcerated if convicted. This chapter was a part of South Carolina House Bill H.4747, passed in 2008, that ...