Each State is made up of Americans — as such they value religious liberty, free speech, etc. — ALL the things protected by the U.S. COnstitution — that’s why there’s so much redundancy built in. The basic premise is “Free Speech”. If Georgia wants a more British version of free speech (which isn’t as free as ours) then so be it — I wager the citizens of Georgia would then change the law via their duly elected State Legislature or they’d see an exodus of professionals, etc. who don’t like prior restraints on speech, etc. Why should SCOTUS be able to dictate to ALL 50 States what they can and can’t do? If Utah wants to outlaw nudie bars, for another example, as obscene then Nevada will make more money. The fact is — Washington — the federal government doesn’t trust Americans to govern themselves and so we have to be told to separate Church and State as if any American truly wants to meld the two anymore. I can speak as a Baptist — we are THE group that just about invented separation of Church and State (Roger WIlliams and Rhode Island).

I will limit myself to comment that Bruce Lee was, indeed, an out-of-this-world martial artist. Lots of things have changed in martial arts, but his principles stand (and seem to apply even to ping-pong ). It could be argued that his ground-fighting was limited or non-existent, but even if that were true, he was too fast to ever be taken to the ground–like trying to make a cat land on his back.

Since we are on the topic of Constitutions

If your state had a constitution that, ratified in 1901, had 287 Sections and 799 Amendments, an amendment regarding how much money may be used for bingo in one country, and another amendment regarding the exchumation of bodies in another county, would you redo it?

(I am talking about the Alabama State Constitution)

If your state had a constitution that, ratified in 1901, had 287 Sections and 799 Amendments, would you want to reform it?

Most of the tax laws, since local governments cannot independently pass tax ordinances, are in the constitution.

Here are two Amendments in the Alabama Constitution:

“Prizes given by any nonprofit organization for the playing of bingo games in Jefferson County shall not exceed the amounts set by local law” (Amendment 600)

“The Madison county commission is hereby authorized with or without charge to provide for the excavating of human graves.” (Amendment 520)

Here it is:
http://www.legislature.state.al.us/Codeofalabama/constitution/1901/constitution1901_toc.htm