Inconsistencies in the last two constitutions, a public call for modernization, fear over the 19th Amendment, and the end of the grandfather clause led Gov. Parker to call for a new convention in May of 1921. The delegates would meet in the house chamber in Baton Rouge on March 1, 1921. Voters, including women, approved the convention call 72,988 votes to 54,719 votes.
Preparations for the convention were so lacking that delegates didn't even have copies of the last constitution, or samples of language from model constitutions. The convention did, however, have a large number of factions which each tried to push their own agendas. The constitution they drafted became even longer than the long 1913 constitution. In the end, it included something for everyone, but failed to correct the disfranchisement of black voters from the 1898 constitution.
Official journal of the proceedings of the Constitutional convention of the state of Louisiana / begun and held in the city of Baton Rouge March 1, 1921. and Calendar. By authority.
Constitution of the State of Louisiana : adopted in convention at the city of Baton Rouge, June 18, 1921
Constitution of the State of Louisiana: Adopted in Convention June 18, 1921
Constitution of the state of Louisiana : as amended through the election of November 2, 1954
GRONERT, THEODORE G. “THE LOUISIANA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS OF 1913 AND 1921.” The Southwestern Political and Social Science Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, 1924, pp. 301–18. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42880404. Accessed 31 May 2022.
