Article XXV.
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Judges to hold no other office
They shall not hold any other office or public trust. All votes for either of them for any elective office (except that of justice of the supreme court or judge of the court of appeals) given by the legislature or the people shall be void. They shall not exercise any power of appointment to public office. Any male citizen, of the age of twenty-one years, of good moral character, and who possesses the requisite qualifications of learning and ability, shall be entitled to admission to practice in all the courts of this state.
Chancellor and supreme court judges to hold no other office
Neither the chancellor, nor justices of the supreme court, nor any circuit judge, shall hold any other office or public trust. All votes for any elective office, given by the legislature or the people, for the chancellor, or a justice of the supreme court, or circuit judge, during his continuance in his judicial office, shall be void.
This item is based on 2 items:
That the chancellor and judges of the supreme court shall not at the same time hold any other office, excepting that of delegate to the general congress, upon special occasions; and that the first judges of the county courts in the several counties, shall not at the same time hold any other office excepting that of senator, or delegate to the general congress; But if the chancellor, or either of the said judges be elected or appointed to any other office, excepting as is before excepted, it shall be at his option in which to serve.