What do you view wrong with your State's constitution?

[Anarchist420]

There are several things I find wrong with the current VA Constitution mainly that it sets a bicameral legislature rather than something like a Virginia confederation. Even for a federal republic or unitary republic it still kind of sucks because it doesn't require 2/3 of both chambers of the Legislature to increase taxes, approve expenditures, elect the executive power, etc.

VA's Constitution is set up like a unitary state in many ways (an example would be direct popular election for much of the executive power). It should really be a confederation that gets by on nothing other than a 5% sales tax (excluding services, food, drinks, rent, and medicine) collected by the counties. VA's Constitution should also say it reserves the right to nullify Federal law but it doesn't say it does.

I do like how it's a right to work State, but taxes and expenditures are too high here. It's also an ABC state and medicinal marijuana usage isn't even legal. I know its taxes per capita are lower than the majority of States, but they're still too high.

I like Vermont's Constitution since it is the most opposed to gun control of any State constitution, although it's probably not perfect in that regard since I'm sure they have a standing and armed police force.

 

[fskimospy]

Why do you care if it's a right to work state or not? Wouldn't you need a job in order to worry about that?

 

[manimal]

I think cuchinelli and that idiot for a governor have done more damage to va

 

[Lemon law]

As Anarchist420 is up and riding on a brand new thread with a rather futile practical contention.

As there is not even one living person left who had a hand in writing our States constitution maybe excepting Hawaii and Alaska. Yet here comes Anarchist420 who has his own bitches about his and other State constitutions pretending he should have equal standing with the original drafters of his State's constitution.

In all due respect for to you anarchist420, its earth to anarchist420, you were born 200 years too late to be in that long dead group who drafted your State's constitution. And now if you want to change your State's constitution, you have to build political consensus within your state to AMEND your states constitution. And because Anand tech has no political standing to do it for you, why post it in these forum's?

 

[Anarchist420]

In all due respect for to you anarchist420, its earth to anarchist420, you were born 200 years too late to be in that long dead group who drafted your State's constitution.

Wrong... VA's constitution was written in 1871.

 

[Lemon law]

Wrong... VA's constitution was written in 1871.

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The constitution of Virginia may have been rewritten in 1871 due to consequences of the American civil war, but it was still 120 years after you were born. And besides, anyone who had any impact in the rewriting of that constitutions were born at least 21 years before 1871.

You were saying what anarchist420?

 

[Anarchist420]

You were saying what anarchist420?

I meant 1971, sorry.

Why do you care if it's a right to work state or not? Wouldn't you need a job in order to worry about that?

Not really, because whether something is a right to work state affects all as some people (myself included) don't want lousy labor. Please try to stay more on topic though rather than trying to derail the thread.

 

[CrackRabbit]

The completely un-workable proposition system.

Take a guess where I live.

 

[Anarchist420]

Take a guess where I live.

CA?

 

[MovingTarget]

I live in Alabama, current GOP/conservative paradise.

The Alabama Constitution of 1901:

At 340,136 words, the document is 12 times longer than the average state constitution, 40 times longer than the U.S. Constitution, and is the longest still-operative constitution anywhere in the world. (The English translation of the Constitution of India, the longest national constitution, is about 117,369 words long, a third of the length.)

About 90 percent of the document's length, as of 2011, comes from its 827 amendments. About 70 percent of the amendments cover only a single county or city, and some deal with salaries of specific officials (e.g. Amendment 480 and the Greene County probate judge). This gives Alabama a large number of constitutional officers.

Where do I start?
D:
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