| LOUISIANA
CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God
Preamble. We, the people of Louisiana, grateful to Almighty
God for the civil, political, economic, and religious liberties we enjoy, and
desiring to protect individual rights to life, liberty, and property; afford opportunity
for the fullest development of the individual; assure equality of rights; promote
the health, safety, education, and welfare of the people; maintain a representative
and orderly government; ensure domestic tranquility; provide for the common defense;
and secure the blessings of freedom and justice to ourselves and our posterity,
do ordain and establish this constitution.
Religion
Clauses Article I, section 3. No person shall
be denied the equal protection of the laws. No law shall discriminate against
a person because of race or religious ideas, beliefs, or affiliations. No law
shall arbitrarily, capriciously, or unreasonably discriminate against a person
because of birth, age, sex, culture, physical condition, or political ideas or
affiliations. Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited, except in the
latter case as punishment for crime.
Article I, section 8.
No law shall be enacted respecting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Education
None.
Finance/Property Tax
None.
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