Resource Category: Louisiana Constitution
PAR Says It’s Time to Update Constitution, Commentary
It will soon be 30 years since Louisiana’s last unlimited constitutional convention convened. The resulting document, the 1974 Constitution, was truly revolutionary. It completely rewrote the 1921 Constitution, the second longest in the nation.
PAR Says End Run on Home Rule an Outrage, Commentary
Local home rule, one of the most important reform concepts in the 1974 state constitution, came under attack Wednesday as a Senate committee unanimously approved a bill to change the Baton Rouge city-parish charter.
The Politics of Reform, PAR: 50 Years of Changing Louisiana
In The Politics of Reform, author and journalist John Maginnis traces a half century of PAR’s central role in major issues of our times–desegregation, public corruption, the new constitution, reapportionment, campaign finance and fiscal reform.
PAR Guide to the 2000 Constitutional Amendments
Voters Trust Tobacco, Commentary
Louisiana is now one of only three states in the nation, so far, to create a permanent endowment fund with its tobacco settlement. It is the only state to have done so by constitutional amendment.