Oregon has a constitutional ban on dueling.
The constitutional ban in question is Article II, Section 9, which says anyone who offers, accepts, knowingly participates in a “challenge to fight a duel … or who shall agree to go out of the State to fight a duel, shall be ineligible to any office of trust, or profit.”
The Oregon State Legislature has begun the process of removing this language because it is archaic and serves no purpose. But it never occurred to them that the cost of removing something that will never matter expands money that could have had some other purpose.
If I were a betting man, I’d say this is a beta test for more significant adjustments to said document. Given how left-leaning Oregon is, almost any change is possible if not likely to come up in future discussions about how to modernize the highest law in the (trigger warning) Beaver State.
