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Letters: Limit constitutional amendments to one per year

Por: The Advocate Opinion October 28, 2022

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There have been 297 proposed to the 1974 Louisiana Constitution and, as unbelievable as it seems, 203 have been adopted. That provides 203 excuses for members of the Legislature to tell voters that their hands are tied — the same hands that voted for the amendments to go before the voters.Many, if not most, of the amendments could have been addressed by passing bills into law and not making them constitutional amendments, but that apparently... + full article



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