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1 Emily Lau, Fifty Unique, Ever-Changing State Constitutions [1] (2023)

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Fifty   Unique, Ever-Changing State
Constitutions

A new  resource  from  the State  Democracy Research Initiative

makes   the current  text of all 50 state constitutions available and

searchable   on one  site.

By Emily Lau  Published: November 15,2023 Last Updated: February 10, 2025
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It has been over 30 years since the U.S. Constitution was last amended. Prior to that,
it had only been amended 16 times since the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791.
Compare that to state constitutions, which were collectively amended nearly 70 times
in 2022 alone. Yet, despite frequently voting on whether to amend their state