[robertpaulsen]

"many state Constitutional provisions of the time"

I believe I said the U.S. Constitution. And my question was "why".

You posted everything but an answer.

[El Gato]

I believe I said the U.S. Constitution. And my question was "why"

Not in the part I quoted, but you did earlier. However even that's not quite true. There is such a clause, although it doesn't have exactly the same format, in Art I, Section 8. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to find it.