Excerpt from A List of Documentary Material Relating to State Constitutional Conventions, 1776-1912
The location in certain Chicago libraries is also given, and following the plan of the List of serials in public libraries of Chicago and Evanston 1901, and Supplement 1905, letters are used to indi cate where the material may be found, Chicago Pub lic, C; Chicago Historical Society, H; John Crerar, J; Newberry, N; Northwestern University, Nw; North western University Law, Nwl; University of Chicago, U, e.g. For the Illinois convention of 1869 - 70. Debates and proceedings. 1870. 2v. [j chjnnwnwlu (this is the only case, however, where all seven libraries have the publication) The num ber of titles in the other libraries is doubtless, however, larger than noted here, for only their ti tles cataloged under the heading Constitutional conventions have been listed, and not their mate rial included in other works.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book collates the speeches, records of debates and resolutions of state constitutional conventions from 1776 to 1912. It includes conventions that proposed constitutions that were never adopted. It also incorporates the proceedings of special councils held to propose amendments to constitutions, and some conventions are covered across multiple entries. The author attempts to give as full a picture as possible of each convention, the political and social issues that led to their occurrence and the impact of the constitutional changes they proposed and enacted. This book is a unique resource for any historian of the US constitution, or of the development of constitutional and democratic ideals in the 19th century. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9780266062448_0
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