History of the Constitutions of Iowa

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Shambaugh Benjamin Franklin. History of the Constitutions of Iowa

PREFACE

I. INTRODUCTION

II. A DEFINITION

III. THE CONSTITUTION MAKERS

IV. SQUATTER CONSTITUTIONS

V. THE TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN

VI. THE TERRITORY OF IOWA

VII. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE TERRITORY

VIII. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE TERRITORY AMENDED

IX. AGITATION FOR A STATE CONSTITUTION

X. THE CONVENTION OF 1844

XI. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1844

XII. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1844 SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS

XIII. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1844 DEBATED AND DEFEATED BY THE PEOPLE

XIV. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1844 REJECTED A SECOND TIME

XV. THE CONVENTION OF 1846

XVI. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1846

XVII. THE NEW BOUNDARIES

XVIII. THE ADMISSION OF IOWA INTO THE UNION

XIX. THE CONVENTION OF 1857

XX. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1857

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Three score years and ten after the declaration went forth from Independence Hall that "all men are created equal," and fifteen years before the great struggle that was to test whether a nation dedicated to that proposition can long endure, Iowa, "the only free child of the Missouri Compromise," was admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States.

Profoundly significant in our political evolution are events such as these. They are milestones in the progressive history of American Democracy.

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Resolved 4th. That $10, Monthly shall hold a claim thereafter.

Resolved 5th. That no mans claim is valid unless he is an actual settler here, or, has a family and has gone after them, in which case he can have one month to go and back.

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