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Alabama's 1901 state constitution is the longest constitution in the world and, depending on what voters decide on Nov. 6, it might get it a little bit longer.

Voters statewide will decide on four amendments pertaining to abortion, the display of the Ten Commandments in schools and other government buildings, filling vacancies in the state legislature, changes to the makeup of the University of Alabama's board of trustees.

Here's a look at those proposed amendments. The wording comes the Alabama Fair Ballot Commission, a panel created by the Legislature to write plain-language statements to explain constitutional amendments.

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AP Photo/Bill Haber

(A moving crew uses a bar to lift one end of the Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2003. A U.S. District Judge has ordered the monument moved from public view in the building. Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended by the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission for failing to comply with the order.)

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Amendment 1 -- Ten Commandments

“Providing for certain religious rights and liberties; authorizing the display of the Ten Commandments on state property and property owned or administrated by a public school or public body; and prohibiting the expenditure of public funds in defense of the constitutionality of this amendment.”

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Mike Cason

(Dean Young of Baldwin County, a longtime Roy Moore supporter and former Congressional candidate, speaks at a press conference at the State Capitol to advocate for Amendment 1 on the ballot Nov. 6.)

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Coverage of Amendment 1

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Eric Schultz

(Pro-choice protesters Doug Roth and Josie Poland hold their signs on the corner of Madison Street and Lowe Avenue during a regular abortion protest outside the Alabama Women's Center For Reproductive Alternatives on Madison Street Wednesday Jan. 23, 2012 in Huntsville, Ala. (Eric Schultz / eschultz@al.com)

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Amendment 2 -- abortion

“To declare and otherwise affirm that it is the public policy of this state to recognize and support the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, most importantly the right to life in all manners and measures appropriate and lawful; and to provide that the constitution of this state does not protect the right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.”

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Thom Scott

(Abortion protesters walk down Sage Avenue in Mobile in 2002.)

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Coverage of Amendment 2

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Duane Lamb

(A restoration of UA's Foster Auditorium was completed in January 2011. It now contains locker rooms, team areas, meeting and video rooms, a weight room, athletics training facilities and coaches' offices. The new seating capacity is 2,600 with seats on the floor level and the second level which overlooks the court. The Malone-Hood Plaza in front honors UA's first African-American students.)

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Amendment 3 -- University of Alabama trustees

"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, relating to the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, to specify that the congressional districts from which members are appointed continue to reflect those as constituted on January 1, 2018, to remove the State Superintendent of Education from membership, and to delete the requirement that members vacate office at the annual meeting of the board following their seventieth birthday."

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Julie Bennett

(The Alabama legislature in February 2016.)

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Amendment 4 -- Legislative vacancies

"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to provide that, if a vacancy in either the House of Representatives or the Senate occurs on or after October 1 of the third year of a quadrennium, the seat would remain vacant until a successor is elected at the next succeeding general election."

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Statewide races

In addition to the amendments, voters will decide whether to give Gov. Kay Ivey a full term or give Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox a shot at Alabama's top office. Here is a look at all the statewide offices on the ballot.

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Congressional races

Voters will also have a chance to cast their ballots for the U.S. House of Representatives in six of the state's seven Congressional districts. Only Rep. Terri Sewell, the lone Democrat among the seven, is running unopposed.

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Issues you need to know about

What do Alabama's two major party candidates say about the major issues - including corruption, opioid addiction, school security and Medicaid expansion - facing Alabamians?

Of the approximately 9,500 votes in an online (non-scientific) poll by AL.com, 14 percent or 1,355 voters, named corruption the issue above others such as health care, lottery and sports gambling, and mental health.

The following is a synopsis of those issues.

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