Alabama Constitution of 1901

The Alabama Constitution of 1901 was the sixth constitution of the state of Alabama, adopted by a state convention and ratified on 21 November 1901. At roughly 388,882 words it became one of the longest constitutions in the world, about twelve times the length of the average American state constitution, swollen over the following decades by 977 amendments addressing matters as narrow as local mosquito control and boll weevil taxes. Its original text imposed literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather clauses to disenfranchise Black Alabamians and many poor white voters, mandated segregated public schools and outlawed interracial marriage, while concentrating power in the state legislature at the expense of local home rule. Alabama voters repealed it on 28 November 2022 in favor of a shorter constitution stripped of its racist language.