Monday, February 8, 2010

Constitution Of Alabama 1901 (excerpts)

PREAMBLE We, the people of the State of Alabama, in order to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following Constitution and form of government for the State of Alabama:

SECTION 102 (Miscegenation laws)
The legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or legalize any marriage between any white person and a negro, or descendant of a negro.

SECTION 178 (Residency, registration and poll tax requirements for electors)
…shall have paid on or before the first day of February next preceding the date of the election at which he offers to vote, all poll taxes due from him for the year nineteen hundred and one, and for each subsequent year; …

SECTION 194 (Poll tax Amount; maximum age for payment; when due and payable; when delinquent; returns of collections to be separate from other collections)
The poll tax mentioned in this article shall be one dollar and fifty cents upon each male inhabitant of the state, over the age of twenty-one years, and under the age of forty-five years, ….

SECTION 256 (Duty of legislature to establish and maintain public school system; apportionment of public school fund; separate schools for white and colored children)
The legislature shall establish, organize, and maintain a liberal system of public schools…Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race.

http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/history/constitutions/constitutions.html

1 comment:

  1. Here it is in plain English!
    Cool that you put this up, Dawn Wolf.

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