Knew the 13th would pass before the 22nd Century.
http://www.digtriad.com/news/articl...h-Amendment-148-Years-After-Slavery-Abolished
http://www.digtriad.com/news/articl...h-Amendment-148-Years-After-Slavery-Abolished
OT: OUR STATE has abolished slavery
- Thread starter CoastalDog
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Once 3/4ths of the states ratify an amendment, it's automatically law everywhere, and any subsequent ratification is just for symbolic or media-whoring purposes. Several states haven't ratified the 14th and 15th amendments, for example.
In our case, we should have just sleeping dogs lie and not turned ourselves into a national laughstock. Especially when we already did this in 1995 and apparently screwed it up somehow.
ETA: Reply fail. My mistake.
In our case, we should have just sleeping dogs lie and not turned ourselves into a national laughstock. Especially when we already did this in 1995 and apparently screwed it up somehow.
ETA: Reply fail. My mistake.
Your're right in saying that ratification was simply a formality, but at the same time it is shameful we were the last state in the union to pass it. In 1995 we got pretty close but a clerical error made by Dick Molpus set us back by 18 years.
Its not just Mississippi that has done things like this though.
In 2005 (or at least I think it was 05'), Alabama tried to take a law out the books that still called for public school districts to be racially segragated. The only way they could do this though was to create a proposal and have it voted on in a state-wide general election.
It got voted down.