Alabama Arise is committed to recognizing, teaching about and repairing the damage that state lawmakers perpetrated for generations through codifying racism and racist practices. Racist language and the harmful provisions flowing from it have no place in our state’s most important legal document. That is why we urge Alabamians to vote “Yes” on the recompiled state constitution on Nov. 8, 2022.
Read our new blog post to learn more about the recompilation. And read our new fact sheet for even more background on Alabama’s ongoing need for constitutional reform. |
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The recompiled constitution will appear on the general election ballot as the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. It will clean up and consolidate the constitution and remove explicitly racist content and illegal provisions that have since been repealed.
Examples of deleted racist language include references to separate schools for Black and white children and prohibition of interracial marriages. The recompilation also strengthens Alabama’s prohibition of slavery by removing language that allows involuntary servitude “for punishment of crime.”
The recompilation’s changes wouldn’t address all of the problems with Alabama’s constitution, including harmful limits related to tax policy and local governance. But they still would move Alabama, and our constitution, in the right direction.
Read our blog post and our fact sheet to learn why Arise urges Alabamians to vote “Yes” on the recompiled state constitution. |
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