Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment VII

Publisher edition notice: The publisher identifies this compilation as revised to January 1, 2025. It preserves the annotated original 1965 text and all ratified amendments, alongside the Revisors' unofficial convenience version incorporating extant amendments. The latter does not supersede the original Constitution and amendments; later changes have not been independently verified.

Amendment VII Ratified amendment and publisher annotations.

ARTICLE VII.*
*Adopted November 27, 1974.
Punishment inflicted refers to penalty prescribed, not to that actually imposed, for offense. 86 C. 624. Cited. 129 C.
624; 188 C. 671.
(Forfeiture and restoration of electoral privileges.)
Section 3 of article sixth of the Constitution is amended to read as follows:
The general assembly shall by law prescribe the offenses on conviction of which the
right to be an elector and the privileges of an elector shall be forfeited and the condi-
tions on which and methods by which such rights may be restored.