Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 83: [MARRIAGE].

Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete constitutional appendix of the Secretary of State’s 2025 Election Laws and Constitution compilation: its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context. Later amendments have not been independently verified.

Amendment 83

AMEND. 83. [MARRIAGE].
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment, effective Decem-
ber 2, 2004, was proposed by initiative petition and ad-
opted at the November 2004 general election by a vote of
753,770 for and 251,914 against.
The bracketed heading was added by the Publisher.
§ 1. Marriage.
Marriage consists only of the union of one man and one woman.
§ 2. Marital status.
Legal status for unmarried persons which is identical or substantially similar to marital status
shall not be valid or recognized in Arkansas, except that the legislature may recognize a common
law marriage from another state between a man and a woman.
§ 3. Capacity, rights, obligations, privileges, and immunities.
The legislature has the power to determine the capacity of persons to marry, subject to this
amendment, and the legal rights, obligations, privileges, and immunities of marriage.
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