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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 ...
The amendment continues to place too much detail in the Louisiana Constitution that is better left to state law. The constitution shouldn’t require a specific system for handling property tax ...
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 ...
Voter have amended the Louisiana Constitution 206 times since it was ratified in 1974. There are three proposed amendments on the December 10 ballot.
The Louisiana Revised Statutes (R.S.) contain a significant amount of legislation, arranged in titles or codes. [2] Apart from this, the Louisiana Civil Code forms the core of private law, [3] the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure (C.C.P.) governs civil procedure, the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure (C.Cr.P.) governs criminal procedure, the Louisiana Code of Evidence governs the law of ...
On April 20, 1974, voters in Louisiana approved a new constitution by a margin of 58 to 42 percent, [13] which repealed the Blaine amendment that was part of that state's 1921 constitution. [14] Louisiana's current 1974 constitution replaced it with a copy of the federal First Amendment's no-establishment and free exercise clauses, in Article 1 ...
Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, has proposed a state constitutional amendment that would give legislators the authority to create specialized courts statewide with a two-thirds vote of lawmakers ...
The text of the amendment states: Marriage in the state of Louisiana shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman. No official or court of the state of Louisiana shall construe this constitution or any state law to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any member of a union other than the union of ...