that the governor was dependent on any more legislation to
carry this into effect so as to enable him to fill his
office. If he were, it would then become necessary to
legislate about every other article, and so the constitution
would be worthless, everything being required to be done
over by the legislature before the constitution could have
any effect.

Article 232 of the constitution is imperative. It declares
that women over twenty-one years of age shall be eligible to
any office of control or management under the school laws of
the State. Can the legislature repeal or modify this
mandate? Of course not. Could the absoluteness of this right
be expressed in plainer or more energetic terms? No, indeed.
We are told and have been made to understand that it is a
right conferred by the constitution of the State, which
cannot be defeated or enlarged, or even abridged in any way
by the legislature; neither by modification, repeal, or
inaction. That this article being paramount law, itself
repeals all legislation inconsistent with it. The
constitution, I am told, prescribes the legal and other
qualifications for our judges of the courts. Nobody ever
thought legislative action was needed when their
qualifications are according to that instrument, to enable
them to take their places on the bench.

Article 185 of the constitution prescribes the
qualifications of voters or electors, and we are instructed
that all conflicting laws on that point are annulled by the
sovereign will of the people in convention assembled. In
fact, good lawyers have given us innumerable examples,
illustrations and decisions to this effect; and even women,
who are for the most part ignorant of the laws of their
State, begin to understand that they have a right to a place
on the school-board for some one of their own sex here in
Louisiana. True, it has been said that there are other
articles which are in conflict with article 232, but we are
told the other provisions of the constitution relate to
other and more general subjects, and on this very subject
the framers of the constitution