Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Constitution of the State of Alabama is the basic governing document of the U.S. state of Alabama. It was adopted in 1901 and is the sixth constitution that the state has had. At 340,136 words, the document is 12 times longer than the average state constitution, 40 times longer than the U.S. Constitution, and is the longest still-operative constitution anywhere in the world. About 90 percent of the document's length, as of 2011, comes from its 827 amendments.