Court Opinion

ID: 9935433
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:55:59.905074+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:27:28.313725
License: Public Domain

We can change the common law doctrine of necessaries or we can declare it unconstitutional as violating a husband's right to equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. There is no equal protection provision in the Constitution of Alabama of 1901. The equal protection provision in the Constitution of Alabama of 1875 was purposefully deleted from the 1901 Constitution at the Constitutional Convention of 1901 (2 Official Proceedings ofthe Constitutional Convention of 1901, pp. 1622-34, 1639-44, and 2254-60), with the understanding that the only equal protection afforded to citizens of Alabama was the equal protection afforded by the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution.