...State of Illinois, which was adopted in 1870, contains the following article: The General Assembly shall provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools, whereby all children of the State may receive a good common school education.1 This article is mandatory, and at...

...construction; the language of the supreme law is too explicit to need any studied interpretation, aud it is as peremptory as it is clear : "Shall provide...all the children of this State may receive a good common-school education." There is no white, no black; no exception, distinction, or discrimination,...

...perquisites of office, or other compensation. ARTICLE VIII. — Education. SEC. 1. The general assembly shall provide a thorough and efficient system of free...all the children of this State may receive a good common-sehooledncatiou. SEC. 2. All lands, moneys, or other property donated, granted, or received...

...State-superintendent has always believed that the article of the Stare-constitution which provides for a " system of free schools, whereby all the children of this State may receive a good common-school-education," establishes the principle that all the school-going children in Illinois...

...free schools. Section 1 of article 8 of the constitution expressly provides that "the General Assembly shall provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools, whereby all children ,of this State may receive a good common school education." There is not a suggestion anywhere...

...(after stating the facts as above). The constitution of this State provides that " the general assembly shall provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools, whereby all children of this State may receive a good common school education." Section 1, article 8. By act of...

...sets forth in Article VII, section 1, the educational platform for the State: "The general assembly shall provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools whereby all children of this State may receive a good common-school education." ' The meaning of the term "common-school...

...sets forth in Article VII, section 1, the educational platform for the State: "The general assembly shall provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools whereby all children of this State may receive a good common-school education. " * The meaning of the term "common-school...

...have established, because it is in violation of the constitutional mandate that the General Assembly shall provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools, whereby all the children in the state may receive a good common school education. We have held that the validating act is constitutional...

...the duty of the General Assembly to provide for a thorough, efficient system of free schools, where all the children of this state may receive a good common school education, and that the mode in which the required system of free schools should be organized, and the officers...