Is the Alabama Constitution the longest constitution in the world?Truth Rating: 4 out of 5

THE CLAIM: Advocates of constitutional reform have long claimed that the 1901 Alabama Constitution is longer than any other founding government document, anywhere. On its website, Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform calls it the “longest known Constitution in the world.” The Alabama State Bar Association has also called it the “longest constitution in the world.” The claim has been widely repeated in the press.

SUMMARY: It's less an established fact than a hypothesis — but it's a hypothesis with very strong support. Law professors and law librarians say they don't know of a longer constitution, but that doesn't mean that there's not one out there.