Alabama has had seven constitutions to date, all but the current one established via State Conventions: 1819 (converting Alabama Territory into a State), 1861 (Secession), 1865 (Reconstruction), 1868 (Reconstruction), 1875 (ending Reconstruction), 1901 (Jim Crow) and the current document, adopted in 2022.
[1][2] Governor Kay Ivey formally proclaimed the new constitution to be in effect on Monday, November 28, 2022, shortly after the state's election results were certified.
Direct, partisan, secret, and free elections are provided for filling all branches.
[citation needed] Even after the recompilation and removal of obsolete, duplicative, and overtly racist provisions, the constitution is still the longest in America, more than three times the length of the Constitution of Texas.
[6] And many of the issues which have plagued the 1901 Constitution still apply: mainly the heavy centralization of power at the state level over local issues[7] and a large part of the tax code (both at the state and local levels) written into the constitution itself.