Supreme Court split on rewriting Ala. Constitution

[The Straight Story]

Alabama’s highest court is divided over whether the state Legislature is acting legally by rewriting the state Constitution a few portions at a time.

In advisory opinions sent to legislators, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore and Justice Tom Parker said the Legislature’s article-by-article approach is not allowed by the Constitution.

Moore said putting out a few new provisions each year for voters to approve does not change the reality that the Legislature has undertaken a near total revision of the Constitution through an in-house constitutional convention.

“By wresting the convention process from the people, the Legislature has unconstitutionally made itself the paramount mechanism of constitutional revisions,” the chief justice wrote in an advisory opinion that was supported by Parker.

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/viewart/20140310/NEWS02/303100012/Supreme-Court-split-rewriting-Ala-Constitution

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1. This is the effect of groups like ALEC, Chamber of Commerce and the GOP working at the state and

local level. It's horrifying and more comprehensive than most people recognize.