...State of California. ARTICLE IX EDUCATION SECTION 1. A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence 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,...

...adopted in 1820, provides for education as follows: ll A general diffusion of the advantages of education being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, to promote this important object, the Legislature are authorized, and it shall be their duty,...

...1865 (Art. IX.), has nine sections. The first reads "A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the General Assembly shall establish and maintain free schools for the gratuitous instruction...

...in 1820, provides for education as follows: '•A general diffusion of the advantages of education being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, to promote tins important object, the Legislature are authorized, and it shall be their duty,...

...SECTION 1. The stability of a republican form of government depending mainly upon the intelligence of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of Idaho, to establish and maintain a general, uniform and thorough system of public, free common schools,...

...1. A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the legislature of the state to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public...

...through all the list of New States even down to Texas, whose constitution declares that "a general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation...people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of this State to make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of public schools." there is...

...constitutions is substantially the same, sometimes reciting " that a diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights...liberties of the people, it shall be the duty of the legislature to encourage the promotion of intellectual and scientific improvement," and again providing...

...people. One state constitution has it In these words: "A general diffusion of knowledge and Intelligence 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,...

...STATE CONSTITUTION ARTICLE IX. EDUCATION. SECTION 1. A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence 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,...