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.
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.