Hmm Interesting found this article about Excelsior College

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I actually think the Constitution is short and vague in order to give the government broad and flexible powers as a backlash to the Articles of the Confederation. If you want very limited government, look at the Texas constitution which is the longest in the country. The Texas constitution was written to be so restrictive, it needs an amendment for just about everything. We have over 400 amendments and our governor is still one of the weakest of all the states.

Bzzt, wrong. Alabama has the longest in the WORLD.

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. About 70 percent of the amendments cover only a single county or city, and some deal with salaries of specific officials (e.g. Amendment 480 and the Greene County probate judge). This gives Alabama a large number of constitutional officers.

The way it is set up, you need a statewide amendment to raise a salary in a minor town, or to build a school on the other side of the state. Our constitution REQUIRES you to bend a knee to Goat Hill (the legislature) and beg for favors to do ANYTHING in the state.