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The amendment was drafted so that it did not apply to the then-current holder of the office (Brereton Jones), which meant that the first Governor to which the amendment applied was elected in 1995 (Paul Patton). The 1992 amendments to Kentucky's Constitution significantly changed the office of Lieutenant Governor.
Author, historian, founder and surveyor John Filson worked as a schoolteacher in Lexington, Kentucky and wrote The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke in 1784. The book is regarded as the first written history of Kentucky [ citation needed ] and features the first known map of the territory, dedicated to the Congress of the ...
Kentucky Revised Statutes; University of Louisville Digital Collection: The statute law of Kentucky with notes, praelections, and observations on the public acts : comprehending also, the laws of Virginia and acts of Parliament in force in this commonwealth : the charter of Virginia, the federal and state constitutions, and so much of the king of England's proclamation in 1763 as relates to ...
Currently, Kentucky’s constitution allows citizens 18 and older who meet certain residence requirements to vote. SB 143 passed the Senate on a 31-4 vote, and HB 341 passed the House on an 81-15 ...
The majority also found that the House map did not violate a section of the state constitution prohibiting excessive county splits, a charge brought forth by attorneys for the Kentucky Democratic ...
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 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.
The doctrine of jural rights is based on a concerted reading of the following sections of the Kentucky Constitution: 14: All courts shall be open, and every person for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial or delay.