Mississippi forgot to outlaw slavery...seriously.

[RyQ_TMC]

Not to rain on everyone's Deep South stereotyping parade here, you are aware that it's not unheard of for states to not ratify amendments once they've been ratified by the required majority?

Washington still hasn't ratified 22nd Amendment... Gee, all those inbred yokels in Seattle and their collective religiousness, holding back progress!

 

[Radoh]

They did not forget to ratify the 13th amendment. You see, they tried to ratify it back in 1995 (something that is still just symbolic at this point, since it's already law) but filed the paperwork incorrectly. They only recently found out that they did it wrong and decided it was necessary to fix it. This sort of thing happens all the time, like how in Alaska necrophilia is still legal.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

They did not forget to ratify the 13th amendment. You see, they tried to ratify it back in 1995 (something that is still just symbolic at this point, since it's already law) but filed the paperwork incorrectly. They only recently found out that they did it wrong and decided it was necessary to fix it. This sort of thing happens all the time, like how in Alaska necrophilia is still legal.

Well, I know where I am going for my next vacation...





[sub]Sorry, I am a terrible person, please don't hurt me[/sub]

 

[Thaluikhain]

I wouldn't put too much into this, there are many "hidden", strange laws out there, that makes no sense.

In my hometown for example, i remember reading an article about a law that states you will be fined if you cover your face after nightfall. For example, wearing a hoodie after dark would make the police stop you and fine you, should they feel like doing so. I do not know if they ended up abolishing this or not, but I would guess it has been practiced just as much as slavery has been practiced in Mississippi in the last decades.

Yeah, there's lots of weird laws yet to be repealed that generally nobody cares about, though.

Some of them can be serious though. There's some laws that the police won't bother enforcing, but can if they don't happen to like you. IIRC, certain US states still ban oral and anal sex, and this is generally overlooked except to make life difficult for prostitutes, predominantly black ones.

 

[Radoh]

They did not forget to ratify the 13th amendment. You see, they tried to ratify it back in 1995 (something that is still just symbolic at this point, since it's already law) but filed the paperwork incorrectly. They only recently found out that they did it wrong and decided it was necessary to fix it. This sort of thing happens all the time, like how in Alaska necrophilia is still legal.

Well, I know where I am going for my next vacation...





[sub]Sorry, I am a terrible person, please don't hurt me[/sub]

Fun fact, it's not as bad as California. You see, Alaska can say it's an oversight, but California's law on the matter is "In certain instances" necrophilia is legal.
Meaning they know about it and didn't simply forget to outlaw it.

 

[Denamic]

It's illegal to have an ice cream cone in your pocket in some American state(s), dunno which. Also not sure about popsicles. Some laws are just so obsolete that no one gives a shit about them. I mean, if someone were to practice slavery, once people got wind of it, the law would be the least of their problems, I think.

 

[thiosk]

Theres worse places to live than Mississippi.

I think.

Swaziland is pretty shit.

 

[Shadowstar38]

In my state, it's still technically illegal for Blacks and Whites to get married. Such things are usually forgotten about and in this day and age, ignored by rational people.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

IIRC slavery is somewhat legal in some or all states. It has to be consensually entered into by both parties however.

-edit-
Just looked it up, Wikipedia says it's outlawed, but there are (legal or handshake-agreement) versions in the BDSM community.

 

[lacktheknack]

Sounds like simple forgetfulness to me.

I mean, my province has outlawed water troughs in my front yard if they remain empty. I know someone with one in their front yard, though, and the police don't care because its irrelevant now. Slavery abolition in the United States is also irrelevant, so it's easy to forget about these laws until you go looking for laws to clean up.

 

[BOOM headshot65]

Sounds like simple forgetfulness to me.

I mean, my province has outlawed water troughs in my front yard if they remain empty. I know someone with one in their front yard, though, and the police don't care because its irrelevant now.

Ha, I got that beat by one law in my town and one in the town down the highway.

My Town: You can be nude in public, on 2 conditions. 1) Its raining. 2) You have soap on your person. [3 guesses were that law is from]

Town down road: You must honk you car horn upon entering town in order to alert the horses. [Again, easy to figure out the time period of that one]


OT: This is just the fact that sometimes laws are overlooked and forget to be passed, or in some cases pass but are rendered irrelavent and then forgotten on the books. There is nothing wrong with this.

 

[Darks63]

The hell? One of the conditions during reconstruction to be readmmitted into the union was the ratification of the 13,14,and 15th amendment to the state consitution. I guess they were one of the states that got in under the compromise of 1877.

 

[Brad Calkins]

Well to be honest I think it's more a case f them understanding that, because it's already illegal on the federal level, they didn't have to, in fact I believe the exact wording was "There shall be no forced labour in the United States of America, or any place under it's juristiction, except as punishment for a past offense."

 

[Lunar Templar]

can't help but think that this was intentional to begin with, given, ya know, every thing that happened.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

I guess I'm more surprised that they're the only one left. Surely most of the other southern states also refused to ratify it at the time; I wonder when they got around to making empty symbolic gestures.

 

[DarthSka]

Actually the state ratified it back in 1995 (still late I know) but the U.S. Archivist wasn't notified, so the ratification wasn't "official."

the state is basically one giant swamp (filled with effing fire ants it would seem), what do you want from them?

I just looked out my window because I thought I just never noticed this swamp you describe. And yet I see no fire ant infested swamp. Thanks for getting my Indiana Jones style adventure hopes up.

 

[Ryotknife]

Actually the state ratified it back in 1995 (still late I know) but the U.S. Archivist wasn't notified, so the ratification wasn't "official."

the state is basically one giant swamp (filled with effing fire ants it would seem), what do you want from them?

I just looked out my window because I thought I just never noticed this swamp you describe. And yet I see no fire ant infested swamp. Thanks for getting my Indiana Jones style adventure hopes up.

from a northern perspective, it is a swamp by comparison. Less so than Louisiana ill admit. Dear lord it was so humid there I thought I would drown.

Maybe im a bit peeved at Mississippi because the first (and only) time i visited it i was trecking through wetlands and attacked by fireants. The next morning my knees downwards was covered in an armor of pus.

Still, rather be in Mississippe than Louisiana, and i was born in Louisiana.