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The Alabama Constitution, in common with all other state constitutions, defines a tripartite government organized under a presidential system.Executive power is vested in the Governor of Alabama, legislative power in the Alabama State Legislature (bicameral, composed of the Alabama House of Representatives and Alabama Senate), and judicial power in the Judiciary of Alabama.
Alabama v. White , 496 US 325 (1990), is a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the Fourth Amendment . The majority opinion ruled that anonymous tips can provide reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop provided that police can factually verify the circumstances asserted by the tip.
The Constitution of the State of Alabama of 1901 was the basic governing document of the U.S. state of Alabama.Adopted in 1901, it was Alabama's sixth constitution.. At 388,882 words, [2] the document was 12 times longer than the average state constitution, 51 times longer than the U.S. Constitution, and, at the time of its repeal, the longest [3] and most amended [4] constitution operative ...
Alabama voters have approved an amendment that would begin the process of deleting racist language from the state's 119-year-old constitution, which was approved to entrench white supremacy as ...
Alabama voters once again have the chance to remove the racist language of Jim Crow from the state's constitution.
Alabama's previous Constitution was established with the explicit purpose of establishing white supremacy in the state. [7] There had been three citizen efforts to strike down the racist and outdated language from the Constitution: 2000 Alabama Amendment 2, which aimed to remove a ban on interracial marriage. It was approved with almost 60% of ...
The Alabama attorney general office wrote in a Friday court filing that the new law, which has a Oct. 1 effective date, cannot be used to block people from voting in the upcoming election, because ...
The constitutionality of sex offender registries in the United States has been challenged on a number of state and federal constitutional grounds. While the Supreme Court of the United States has twice upheld sex offender registration laws, in 2015 it vacated a requirement that an offender submit to lifetime ankle-bracelet monitoring, finding it was a Fourth Amendment search that was later ...