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Louisiana My Home Sweet Home

Louisiana My Home Sweet Home

by Sammie McKenzie, Lou Lavoy & Castro Carazo

Louisiana designated Louisiana My Home Sweet Home (by Sammie McKenzie, Lou Lavoy and Castro Carazo) as an official state song in 1952.

Lyrics:

Kissed by the Gulf's mighty stream,
A lovely state, Louisiana,
Where sweet magnolias, so rare,
Perfume the air
With fragrance that's supreme.
God bless our lovely state.
It's a paradise right here on earth.

Chorus:

The Bill of Rights

Amendments to U.S. Constitution

PREAMBLE TO BILL OF RIGHTS:

Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

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The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776.

The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America.

When, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's GOD entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation.