Heads up: Mo’ amendments, mo’ problems
Picking up where Schoolhouse Rock left off, a new documentary tells the long and sordid history of Alabama’s constitution. How long? How sordid? A gentleman never asks, and a lady never tells.
However, Lewis Lehe, a 20-year-old Homewood High grad and University of Pittsburgh sophomore, dares expose all in his 49-minute documentary, “It’s a Thick Book.” The film, funded by Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform, uses insight and humor in explaining how the massive document is crippling the very state it defines. The Legislature has come closer to calling for a constitutional convention in recent years, even as the document continues to grow, currently at 743 amendments.
The film could be screened in theaters in March, followed by possible online availability.
Trailer after the jump.
• Birmingham News: A clever look at constitution’s many problems
• Votelaw: Alabama: “It’s a thick book”
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