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A replica of the courthouse where the first Constitutional Convention was held in Danville, Kentucky in 1784. The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is the document that governs the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It was first adopted in 1792 and has since been rewritten three times and amended many more.
2024 Kentucky Amendment 2 was a rejected legislatively referred amendment to the Kentucky Constitution, which was voted on as part of the 2024 Kentucky elections. If enacted, the amendment would have allowed the Kentucky General Assembly to fund charter schools .
The Kentucky Resolutions of 1799, while claiming the right of nullification, did not assert that individual states could exercise that right. Rather, nullification was described as an action to be taken by "the several states" who formed the Constitution. The Kentucky Resolutions thus ended up proposing joint action, as did the Virginia Resolution.
Amendment 2, if approved by voters, would change the Kentucky constitution in a way that gives lawmakers the option to fund private and charter schools in the future. That is prohibited by the ...
Section 25 of the Kentucky Constitution reads: “Slavery and involuntary servitude in this state are forbidden, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”
The best chance is to fix Kentucky’s outdated constitution by passing Amendment 2. By doing so, we make way for lawmakers to advance education freedom for families like mine who have been ...
The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...
Letters to the Editor: As a conservative, I believe Amendment 2 would permit another form of government spending, effectively removing a critical barrier that protects taxpayers like us from ...