This year's proposal to rewrite the Alabama Constitution to remove the racist language, allow counties possess home rule self-governance, ability to legislate local taxation for adequate funds for individual school districts. Alabama State House Representative Demetrius Newton of Birmingham has proposed a bill calling for a draft rewriting the Alabama Constitution. However, GOP reps like Paul DeMarco is already deterring this bill instead calling for an article-by-article rewrite of the constitution.
As always, the Republicans and Dixiecrats are the ones calling for an alternative they never put any action behind. I'm so tired of this bullshit with them and the Alabama Constitution. It's inherently racist, perpetuates class stratification, and centralizes power in the state capitol ironically in a state where the motto is so individualistic and localized. However, the state charter does the exact opposite of this encapsulating all authority there in Montgomery with the Alabama Legislature.
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