For roughly fifty years, my home-state of Alabama has often talked about the idea of writing a new state constitution. This occurs almost yearly now and it generally goes nowhere.
The present Constitution? It's been around since 1901. To be honest, it's got various problems in it....if you go and actually read it.
So this week, I'm starting a reading and commentary over the state Constitution.
Section 86: It has to deal with stopping or suppressing dueling, which had already become a problem as they wrote the original Constitution in 1819.
The basic words?
"The legislature shall pass such penal laws as it may deem expedient to suppress the evil practice of dueling."It wasn't really a freedom....it was like a stringent weight put upon the legislature....to make any type of law which would prevent 'evil' dueling (rather than 'decent' dueling).
The odds that alcohol helped to fuel the act in the late 1700s to the 1819 period? Well....we do have certain issues in our consumption of booze in Alabama.
Do we really need secretion 86? No....this is one of those things that probably ought to be removed.
I'll be doing at least one of these per day, for the next ten days. If you wanted to read it yourself? Go over to this site.
