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Constitutions of the US and Commonwealth of Kentucky


Constitutions. Kentucky

We, the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy, and invoking the continuance ...

The Federal and State Constitutions, Vol. III Kentucky-Massachusetts

The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws of the States and Territories now or heretofore forming the United States of ...

Supreme Court of Kentucky

Section 177 of the Constitution wisely prohibits the giving of the credit of the Commonwealth or the making of a donation to any private corporation or ...

Kentucky | The Online Books Page

Kentucky: The general statutes of Kentucky, by an Act approved April 22, 1873 : to which are prefixed Magna charta, the Constitution of the United States, the ...

Constitution of the commonwealth of Kentucky : - Berkeley Law

Title Constitution of the commonwealth of Kentucky : adopted by the Constitutional Convention, September 28, 1891. Variant Title Cited as: Ky. Const. of 1891.

UofL Libraries: Kentucky Law: Local & Constitutional

Kentucky's constitution is more wide-ranging than in many other states. The constitution was drafted in the 1890-91 Constitutional Convention, ...

Constitutional Conventions | Kentucky Legal History - UKnowledge

Over the course of its history, the Commonwealth of Kentucky has operated under four separate constitutions. This collection contains the records available ...

Kentucky Constitution - US Legal System

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky was first adopted in 1792. It has been rewritten three times. The versions of the Constitution were adopted ...

Kentucky constitutions and journals, 1788-1891 - ResearchWorks

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has had four Constitutions in its history. The first was adopted in 1792 when Kentucky first became a state.

the kentucky constitution - Carolina Academic Press

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (1891) xxi ... Kentucky Constitution better by comparing it with the U.S. Constitution.

Catalog Record: Constitution of the commonwealth of Kentucky

Constitution of the commonwealth of Kentucky, adopted by the Constitutional convention, April 11, 1891, and submitted to a vote of the people at the August ...

Editorial Note: The Admission of Kentucky and Vermont to the Union

The President, on the other hand, had certainly disclosed no inclination to advise Congress how to exercise its constitutional function of admitting new states.

State Right To Bear Arms Laws in Kentucky - Giffords

The Bill of Rights of the Constitution of Kentucky provides that “[a]ll men are, by nature, free and equal, and have certain inherent and ...

Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798 - Avalon Project

... Constitution. That this commonwealth does therefore call on its co-States for an expression of their sentiments on the acts concerning aliens, and for the ...

Kentucky Resolutions, 1798-99 - Founding.com

In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. That this commonwealth ...

What's the difference between a commonwealth and a state?

There are four states in the United States that call themselves commonwealths: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

ArtI.S9.C8.4 Titles of Nobility and the Constitution

See, e.g., Briscoe v. Bank of Commonwealth of Kentucky, 36 U.S. 257, 350 (1837) (noting that title of nobility is a term ...

Protect our Constitution | Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

Some state legislators want Kentucky to join other states in calling for a national constitution convention to re-write the US Constitution.

III. Resolutions Adopted by the Kentucky General Assembly, 10 …

Resolved, that the Constitution of the United States having delegated to Congress ... Commonwealth in requesting their repeal at the next session of Congress.

What makes a commonwealth different from a state? - WEHT

Officials say even though Kentucky first adopted its constitution in 1792, it was the state's fourth constitution, adopted in 1891, that ...