Mississippi Civics: How Your State Government Works

by bam

A practical, non-partisan guide to how the state of Mississippi governs itself, and how you take part where you live. Mississippi has changed in real, recent ways: in 2020 voters replaced an unusual Jim Crow-era rule that could send statewide elections to the state House, and Mississippi adopted a new state flag; and in 2021 the state's ballot-initiative process was struck down by its Supreme Court. You'll learn Mississippi's Constitution of 1890, its large plural executive (with an unusually powerful Lieutenant Governor), its Legislature of 52 senators and 122 representatives, its nonpartisan elected judiciary, its odd-year elections, and its 82 counties. Time-sensitive facts are flagged, pointing to sos.ms.gov. Cited to Mississippi's own official sources (legislature.ms.gov, sos.ms.gov, courts.ms.gov).