Kentucky Legal Research

Kentucky became the westernmost county of Virginia and Virginia's Constitution of 1776 provided for the possiblity of Kentucky becoming a separate state.  The Virginia Compact of 1789 set forth the conditions for Kentucky statehood.  The present Constitution was adopted in 1891.  Heinonline provides a PDF scan of each of these Constitutions:

• First Constitution - 1792

• The Second Constitution - 1799

• The Third Constitution - 1850

• The Fourth Constitution - 1891