Chapter § 4.1

• Jurisdiction: Oregon

§ 4.1 BACKGROUND AND EARLY APPLICATION

Article I, section 20, of the Oregon Constitution states: "No law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens privileges, or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens." The provision was drawn from Article I, section 23, of the Indiana Constitution. Charles Henry Carey, ed., The Oregon Constitution and Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1857, 468 (1926). Article I, section 23, of the Indiana Constitution states: "The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens." There was no reported debate on the provision at...