...1844. The constitution under which Iowa entered the Union in 1836 declared: "The General Assembly shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral and agricultural improvement." Thi» constitution also required that every school district support a school for at least three months...

...scientific, and agricultural improvements. ..." Mississippi. Art. 8, Sec. 20i, Constitution 1 890 : "It shall be the duty of the Legislature to encourage by all...public schools, by taxation or otherwise, for all children between the ages of five and twenty-one years, and as soon as practicable to establish schools...

...being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvements." Connecticut. Art. 7, Sec. 1, Constitution 1818: ' ' It being the duty of all men to...

...office of the State Superintendent of Education in the manner prescribed by law; that the legislature encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual,...scientific, moral and agricultural improvement, by the establishment of a uniform system of free public schools by taxation or otherwise, for all children...

...state constitution which such statute can possibly violate is section 201, providing that it shall be the duty of the legislature to encourage by all...public schools, by taxation or otherwise, for all children between the ages of five and twenty-one years, and as soon as practicable to establish schools...

...constitution of the state of Mississippi, section 201, where there is a direct command as follows: "It shall be the duty of the legislature to encourage by all suitable means, the subject of education in the state." Now there is a liberal construction put upon the wide latitude...

...lands in unlimited quantities? Section 201 of the Constitution enjoins upon the legislature the duty of "establishing a uniform system of free public schools, by taxation, or otherwise." Can the legislature disregard this command, and establish "a uniform system" of public pay schools?...

...people of America. It reads clear and distinct, and goes on from where I stopped: 'The Legislature shall encourage, by all suitable means, the promotion of...intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement. ' All four of these come in strictly under the true principle of education. The gentleman, in his amendment,...

...other provisions were made for financing the schools, but it was provided that "the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral and agricultural improvements ' ' and schools were required to be maintained for at least three months each year.47...

...essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, [in which] the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual,...scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement." When the contract of the States was amended, signed and ratified, namely, the Federal Constitution,...