The general election is more than a week away and there could be some changes to the Alabama constitution. On the ballot, there are ten amendments on the ballot and a vote to recompile the state constitution.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -
Voting ‘yes’ means deleting duplicate and legally irrelevant provisions and removing racist language.
“The African-Americans that live in Alabama deserve so much more than us to just pretend like the constitution wasn’t written in the way it was and just to leave it as it was,” said Nicholson. “It has things in there like interracial marriage being illegal, involuntary servitude things like that.” In some cases, lawmakers had to remove entire paragraphs in the constitution like references to separate schools for Black and white children, prohibiting interracial marriages and allowing involuntary servitude.The constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude but it has an exception. It allows involuntary servitude ‘.’ This portion was deleted from the 2022 revisions.
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