Gouaux v. Smith

The question in this ease is whether the Legislature was forbidden, either by the statute calling the constitutional convention of 1921, or by the schedule of the Constitution itself, to enact a law that would shorten the terms of .office of the parish health officers.

The statute by which the Legislature called the convention was the Act 180 of 1920. It contained (in the fourth paragraph of the first section) several restrictions or limitations upon the authority of the convention. Among those restrictions was a proviso forbidding the convention to enact or adopt any article or provision…