The Louisiana Constitution of 1812 had several pertinent sections in Article IV on the Judiciary Department.
Sec. 1. The judiciary power shall be vested in a supreme court and inferior courts.
Sec. 4. The legislature is authorised to establish such inferior courts as may be convenient to the administration of justice.
Sec. 5. The judges both of the supreme and inferior courts shall hold their offices during good behaviour; but for any reasonable cause which shall not be sufficient ground for impeachment, the Governor shall remove any of them, on the address of three fourths of each house of the general assembly: Provided however, That the cause or causes for which such removal may be required, shall be stated at length in the address, and inserted on the journal of each house.
Sec. 6. The judges, by virtue of their office, shall be conservators of the peace throughout the state; the style of all process shall be “The State of Louisiana.” All prosecutions shall be carried on in the name and by the authority of the state of Louisiana, and conclude “against the peace and dignity of the same.”
Sec. 12. The judges of all courts within this state, shall, as often as it may be possible so to do, in every definitive judgment, refer to the particular law, in virtue of which such judgment may have been rendered, and in all cases adduce the reasons on which their judgment is founded.
The Legislature also adopted this act:
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CHAPTER VI.
AN ACT
To determine the mode of Election of the Mayor, Recorder and other public officers necessary for the administration of the Police of the City of New Orleans, and for other purposes.
