The Ballot Language
Be it resolved by the people of the state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended:
Art. IX, Sec. 1(a) of the Constitution is amended to read as follows:
A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people,; education shall be a fundamental right. It shall be the duty of the state and general assembly shall to establish and maintain adequate, thorough, and uniform high quality free public schools to provide for the gratuitous instruction of all persons in this state within ages not in excess of twenty-one years as prescribed by law.