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    The Louisiana Constitution is legally named the Constitution of the State of Louisiana and commonly called the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, and the...
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    Section 8 of the Constitution of Louisiana, the attorney general is elected statewide for a four-year term and is the chief legal officer of the state. Additionally...
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    types of cases. The post-Reconstruction Constitution of 1879 substantially modified the organization of the Louisiana judiciary. The Constitution created...
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  • governor of Louisiana is the head of government of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The governor is the head of the executive branch of Louisiana's state government...
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    judiciary of Louisiana is defined under the constitution and law of Louisiana and comprises the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal...
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    chief of the Louisiana National Guard. Republican Jeff Landry has held the office since January 8, 2024. Louisiana ratified its first constitution in 1812...
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    The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States...
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    Law in the state of Louisiana is based on a more diverse set of sources than the laws of the other 49 states of the United States. Private law—that is...
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    head of the Louisiana Department of State. The position was created by Article 4, Section 7 of the Louisiana Constitution. The current secretary of state...
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    21 of the 1921 Constitution of the State of Louisiana. It succeeded the Railroad Commission of Louisiana that was created by the 1898 Constitution. The...
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  • interpretation of the principles and intents of the United States Constitution. The party platform is based on originalist interpretations of the Constitution and...
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    governor-elect André B. Roman. In the Louisiana Constitution of 1846, the lieutenant governor of Louisiana assumed the functions of the senate presidency. This...
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    III, §4, of the Louisiana Constitution. In 2007, some legislators had served their maximum terms and could not run again, being "termed out of office"...
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    Louisiana French (Louisiana French: français de la Louisiane; Louisiana Creole: françé la lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties...
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    from Louisiana since 2017. A Republican, he served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 2000 to 2017, as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Revenue...
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    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...
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    of Louisiana is defined under the Constitution and law of Louisiana and is composed of the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal...
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    The Constitution of the Confederate States was the supreme law of the Confederate States of America. It superseded the Provisional Constitution of the...
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    By 1962, the constitution had grown to 75,000 words, which at that time was longer than any other state constitution but Louisiana's. That year, the...
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  • for the purpose of developing an industrial economy in post-Reconstruction Louisiana. Four years later in 1898, the state constitution changed the school's...
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    presided over the Louisiana Senate from 1845 until the adoption of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974.[citation needed] Under the new constitution, the lieutenant...
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    Gambling (redirect from History of gambling)
    March 1997. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009. E.g., Constitution of Louisiana, 1974, Art. VII, Sec. 6(B). "Nevada Gaming Control Board : Home"...
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    State Legislature". The Constitution of Louisiana vests legislative authority in "a legislature, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives," and...
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  • The Louisiana Democratic Party (French: Parti démocrate de Louisiane, Spanish: Partido Demócrata de Luisiana) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party...
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    Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. They adopted a new constitution establishing a confederation government of "sovereign and independent...
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  • Plessy v. Ferguson (category Legal history of Louisiana)
    East Louisiana Railroad to segregate trains had denied him his rights under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution, which...
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    Louisiana Constitutional Amendment 1 of 2004, is an amendment to the Louisiana Constitution that makes it unconstitutional for the state to recognize...
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    United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or...
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  • The Constitution of the State of Alabama is the basic governing document of the U.S. state of Alabama. It was adopted in 2022 and is Alabama's seventh...
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    to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Usually considered one of the most consequential...
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