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by 0xcde4c3db 2850 days ago
Ideally, yes. But some constitutions end up being dumping grounds for laws where the amendment process was considered preferable to that of statutes (e.g. if a constitutional amendment requires approval by popular vote and therefore can't be repealed by legislators alone). The Alabama constitution is infamously over 40 times the length of the US constitution and contains 900+ amendments.
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Didn't realize that individual states have their own constitutions! TIL, I guess. Thanks!