In 1901, 155 delegates gathered in Montgomery, Alabama to create the dumbest constitution in American history, then ratify it through a sham election. This is the story of Alabama's state constitution, still in use to this day.
SOURCES:
Alabama's Shame: The Historical Origins of the 1901 Constitution by Wayne Flynt
https://www.law.ua.edu/pubs/lrarticles/Volume%2053/Issue%201/Flynt.pdf
Populism to Progressivism by Sheldon Hackney
http://uapress.ua.edu/product/978-0-8173-8532-3-Populism-to-Progressivism-In-Alabama,4881.aspx?skuid=2200
Reconstruction Constitutions - Encyclopedia of Alabama
http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-4192
The less you make, the more you pay: Alabama’s taxes remain upside down by Chris Sanders of Alabama Arise
https://www.alarise.org/news-releases/the-less-you-make-the-more-you-pay-alabamas-taxes-remain-upside-down/
