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The constitution is the cornerstone of the law of Louisiana ensuring the rights of individuals, describing the distribution and power of state officials and local government, establishes the state and city civil service systems, creates and defines the operation of a state lottery, and the manner of revising the constitution. Louisiana's ...
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Voters have approved 216 amendments to their Louisiana Constitution during the past 50 years. That's compared to 27 amendments (including the original 10 in the Bill of Rights) in the U.S ...
Amendment No. 2: Repeal of inactive special funds in Constitution. A vote for would: Remove six inactive funds with zero or near-zero balances from the Louisiana Constitution. A vote against would ...
The First Constitution of the State of Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Published for the Historic New Orleans Collection by the Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-0158-3. Palmer, Vernon Valentine (2012). Through the Codes Darkly: Slave Law and Civil Law in Louisiana. Clark, LA: Lawbook Exchange. ISBN 978-1616193263. Rault Jr., Gerard A. (1989).
Louisiana Constitutional Amendment 1 [3] of 2004, is an amendment to the Louisiana Constitution that makes it unconstitutional for the state to recognize or perform same-sex marriages or civil unions. The referendum was approved by 78% of the voters.
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862.
A copy of the amendment to the Louisiana Constitution that dedicated oil revenues to the Louisiana coast, authored by then-Senator Reggie Dupree. This copy hung on the wall of Dupree's Terrebonne ...