Alabama Constitution

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@Halfcockedlaw @DeJureSass INVALID LOOP ERROR: CVS receipts officially became part of the Constitution in 2014.

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REMINDER #ALABAMA: We have the longest Constitution IN👏THE👏WORLD👏! This has got to stop. #VoteNo on all new amendments!

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@JustinTweets4 We are Borg

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@frozensooner And I'm not in disagreement. Most of them are to push back against well-settled law that already prohibits those activities, or they cater to some minor issue that should easily be resolved through the legislature. Constitutional amendments are not appropriate, in either case.

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@frozensooner For better or worse, the content doesn't even matter. The reason that these amendments keep popping up on every election is that the folks in Montgomery can't get something passed the way they want to, and amending the Constitution is too easy on a simple referendum.

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@richterjw @JNarragansett

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Hey #Alabama, remember when you go #vote on Nov. 6 that Alabama’s Constitution is longer than all other state and national constitutions COMBINED. #VoteNo on all amendments. #StopTheInsanity

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e been found, or which may hereafter be found, for any crime or offense committed before the ratification of this Constitution, shall be proceeded upon in the same manner as if this Constitution had not been ratified.

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s due and owing to the State, or any subdivision or municipality thereof; and all writs, suits, prosecutions, claims and causes of action, except as herein otherwise provided, shall continue and remain unaffected by the ratification of this Constitution. All indictments which hav

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That all bonds executed by or to any officer of this State, all recognizances, obligations and all other instruments executed to this State, or to any subdivision or municipality thereof, before the ratification of this Constitution, and all fines, taxes, penalties and forfeiture

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ividuals or bodies corporate, not inconsistent with this Constitution, shall continue to be valid as if this Constitution had not been ratified.

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That all laws in force at the ratification of this Constitution and not inconsistent therewith, shall remain in full force until altered or repealed by the Legislature; and all rights, actions, prosecutions, claims and contracts of the State, counties, municipal corporations, ind

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In order that no injury or inconvenience may arise from the alterations and amendments made by this Constitution to the existing Constitution of this State, and to carry this Constitution into effect, it is hereby ordained and declared:

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hall be valid without his approval.

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ution of the Legislature passed in accordance with the provisions of this article, proposing amendments to this Constitution, or calling a convention for the purpose of altering or amending the Constitution of this State, shall be submitted for the approval of the Governor, but s

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287. All votes of the Legislature upon proposed amendments to this Constitution, and upon bills or resolutions calling a Convention for the purpose of altering or amending the Constitution of this State, shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the Journals. No act or resol

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and power of the convention, when duly assembled in pursuance of this section, to establish such ordinances and to do and perform such things as to the convention may seem necessary or proper for the purpose of altering, revising or amending the existing Constitution.

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ding the Constitution of this State, shall be repealed except upon the vote of a majority of all the members elected to each House at the same session at which such act or resolution was passed; provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed as restricting the jurisdiction

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the question of Convention or No Convention shall be first submitted to a vote of all the qualified electors of the State, and approved by a majority of those voting at such election. No act or resolution of the Legislature calling a convention for the purpose of altering or amen

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286. No convention shall hereafter be held for the purpose of altering or amending the Constitution of this State, unless after the Legislature by a vote of a majority of all the members elected to each House has passed an act or resolution calling a Convention for such purpose,